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Self-taught nature photographer David Frutos dwells in Murcia, Southeast Spain, and captures the incredible essence of the Mediterranean coast like a mystical dream.

David lives less than 75 kilometers from one of the best places he’s ever been—the Camarillas Swamp in Albacete, Spain. Many of the photos for which he won prestigious international awards have come from this particular location that he has managed to turn into a beautiful, magical spot.

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We’ve just opened the Your Best Shot 2016 Group to submissions and will be accepting submissions through January 7th. Please upload your favorite photo to the group and share with the Flickr community as we celebrate the best photography from the past year. As a reminder, please ensure it is a Safe image uploaded to Flickr in 2016.

As the pool fills up, we encourage you to make galleries of your favorite photos and to create galleries fitting particular themes. You can share them in this discussion thread in the group and get further inspiration from your Flickr Fam.

Flickr staff will begin publishing galleries of our favorites in the next few weeks and throughout the new year. We’ll promote a number of the photos on the official Flickr account and on our social media channels to get more exposure for your work.

We hope you enjoy and we look forward to seeing what you share in the group.

Flickr Fans - We’re Bringing You Some New Features!

We’re always looking to provide our users with with easier ways to discover and engage with photographs and groups that inspire them. As part of this vision, today we’re announcing updates to Flickr’s desktop Feed that will keep content fresh and puts groups at the forefront. Learn more about these new features below!

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Discover More

There are currently over 12.4 billion photos on Flickr, and we want you to see as many as possible. That’s why we’ve moved to a two-column feed! Not only can you discover more photos, but you can easily stay up to date on the activities of people you follow. We’ll also surface recommendations based on your favorite photos and Flickr featured photographers, so you can find photos and groups that match your interests. This new desktop feed matches the iOS and Android app feeds (plus some fun additional features), so switching between desktop and mobile will be more seamless than ever.

Preview Photos

With the new Preview feature, you can not only see how many photos people you follow have uploaded, but you can scroll through their photos right from your feed. Gone are the days of having to go to their page to see what you care about.

Enjoy Notifications

Tired of having to scroll through your feed to see your notifications? With the new notifications hub you will be alerted to activity (ex: photo faves and responses) no matter which page you’re on. And after many requests, we’re bringing you group notifications! Find out when new discussions are started and never miss a discussion response again. Don’t worry, if notifications become bothersome, they can also be muted.

Whether you’re a power user or a newbie, we hope you enjoy this update! Please send us any feedback you have so we can continue to improve the Flickr experience.

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DNI Announces the Declassification of the Existence of Collection Activities Authorized by President George W. Bush Shortly After the Attacks of September 11, 2001

December 21, 2013

Yesterday, the Director of National Intelligence (“DNI”) announced the declassification of the existence of collection activities authorized by President George W. Bush shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Starting on October 4, 2001, President Bush authorized the Secretary of Defense to employ the capabilities of the Department of Defense, including the National Security Agency (“NSA”), to collect foreign intelligence by electronic surveillance in order to detect and prevent acts of terrorism within the United States.  President Bush authorized NSA to collect: (1) the contents of certain international communications, a program that was later referred to as the Terrorist Surveillance Program (“TSP”), and (2) telephony and Internet non-content information (referred to as “metadata”) in bulk, subject to various conditions.   

President Bush issued authorizations approximately every 30-60 days.  Although the precise terms changed over time, each presidential authorization required the minimization of information collected concerning American citizens to the extent consistent with the effective accomplishment of the mission of detection and prevention of acts of terrorism within the United States.  NSA also applied additional internal constraints on the presidentially-authorized activities.

Over time, the presidentially-authorized activities transitioned to the authority of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”).  The collection of communications content pursuant to presidential authorization ended in January 2007 when the U.S. Government transitioned the TSP to the authority of the FISA and under the orders of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (“FISC”).  In August 2007, Congress enacted the Protect America Act (“PAA”) as a temporary measure.  The PAA, which expired in February 2008, was replaced by the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which was enacted in July 2008 and remains in effect.  Today, content collection is conducted pursuant to section 702 of FISA.  The metadata activities also were transitioned to orders of the FISC.  The bulk collection of telephony metadata transitioned to the authority of the FISA in May 2006 and is collected pursuant to section 501 of FISA.  The bulk collection of Internet metadata was transitioned to the authority of the FISA in July 2004 and was collected pursuant to section 402 of FISA.  In December 2011, the U.S. Government decided to not seek reauthorization of the bulk collection of Internet metadata.

After President Bush acknowledged the TSP in December 2005, two still-pending suits were filed in the Northern District of California against the United States and U.S. Government officials challenging alleged NSA activities authorized by President Bush after 9/11.  In response the U.S. Government, through classified and unclassified declarations by the DNI and NSA, asserted the state secrets privilege and the DNI’s authority under the National Security Act to protect intelligence sources and methods.   Following the unauthorized and unlawful release of classified information about the Section 215 and Section 702 programs in June 2013, the Court directed the U.S. Government to explain the impact of declassification decisions since June 2013 on the national security issues in the case, as reflected in the U.S. Government’s state secrets privilege assertion.  The Court also ordered the U.S. Government to review for declassification all prior classified state secrets privilege and sources and methods declarations in the litigation, and to file redacted, unclassified versions of those documents with the Court.

The eight previously classified DNI declarations and classified NSA declarations that were filed in support of the U.S. Government’s prior assertions of the state secrets privilege and sources and methods privilege in this litigation are posted on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence website and ICOntheRecord.tumblr.com, the public website dedicated to fostering greater public visibility into the intelligence activities of the U.S. Government.  Some information has been redacted from the declarations to protect information that remains properly classified for national security reasons and because of the great harm to national security if disclosed.  The unclassified DNI and NSA declarations filed with the Court yesterday are also posted.

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Intimate Spaces

Intimate Spaces by David Haughton
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There’s something magical about little wildernesses in urban areas. Patches of sunlight find their way in through the beech and hazel to rest upon tangles of brambles and grasses wrestling for space and the warmth of the sun. These are always peaceful spots and a haven for small birds and mammals. www.davidhaughtonphotography.co.uk

An Out-Of-This-World Selfie

British European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peak is on the International Space Station for a six-month mission lasting until the beginning of June. Check out Tim’s Flickr photostream for more photos of his mission.

Tim took this selfie during his spacewalk on Friday, January 15 2016. More information here.

Photo Credit: ESA/NASA 

SpaceX Just Landed a Rocket

For the first time, SpaceX just successfully launched a rocket carrying 11 satellites into orbit, then turned it around and landed back on Earth. Take a look at the amazing photos from this monumental event in the history of space flight!

Those aren’t two launches. One trail is the rocket going up, and the 2nd is the rocket coming back down to land just 1000 meters away!

The Falcon 9 first-stage rocket, after landing safely on the landing pad!

Long exposure showing the launch, re-entry, and landing burns of the Falcon 9 rocket.

The SpaceX “Landing Zone 1.”

I highly recommend watching the full launch and landing, and of course, you can follow SpaceX on Flickr.

NASA Releases the Images of the Antares Rocket Launch Failure

NASA recently uploaded remarkable photos of the Orbital ATK Antares rocket launch failure on October 28th 2014 to their Flickr account.

The images document the explosion in the Antares Main Engine System that caused the vehicle to lose thrust and fall back toward the ground. According to NASA, the Cygnus spacecraft onboard of the rocket was filled with supplies slated for the International Space Station, including science experiments, experiment hardware, spare parts, and crew provisions.

Explore this and more images from NASA HQ’s photostream and be sure to follow them if you want more updates about the space agency.

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Yahoo Dublin Raises €40,000 for ChildVision!

By Pia Wüstenhöfer, Senior Supervisor, Account Operations

Our Yahoo employees never fail to go the extra mile with hard work and generosity. Yahoos in Dublin raised a whopping €40,000 (that’s $44,960) for ChildVision, Yahoo’s preferred charity for 2016. ChildVision is an organization dedicated to the support and education of blind and multi-disabled children. Being the only school of its kind in Ireland, it doesn’t get the state funding it needs to provide the desired level of care to those who need their help. That’s where our employees stepped in!

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Ours teams in Dublin set out to support ChildVision to increase exposure and provide donations to fund improvements for those in their care. Through various office events, including “sumo wrestling your manager” and surprising your valentine, our fun-loving employees had a blast raising awareness for the cause.

A massive thank you to everyone who’s supported this organization and thanks to our Dublin employees for providing this donation!

Full of Pride

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By Chris Kolk, Chair of Yahoo Pride

June is recognized globally as a time of reflection and celebration for the LGBTQ community. Every year, Pride celebrations are held around the world to commemorate the Stonewall Riots in New York, the anniversary of the Supreme Court case of Obergefell v. Hodges, and individuals such as Harvey Milk and Audrey Lorde who helped pave the way for LGBTQ rights. This month, we encourage you to take a moment to remember those who took a stand for equality and join those who are still fighting for LGBTQ rights. The fight for equality is not something of the past, but the responsibility of those living in the present.

Here at Yahoo, we’re recognizing these individuals and milestones by celebrating all month long with our Yahoo Pride Employee Resource Group (ERG) and by leveraging the power of our products and network to drive inclusivity. Here’s just some what we have planned:

  • Yahoo Mail: Share your Pride with family and friends all month long by using our Pride-themed stationery
  • Yahoo Homepage: During Pride weekend, June 23 – 25, our Yahoo Homepage will commemorate this important time, highlighting our continued commitment to diversity
  • Yahoo Billboard: If you’re driving north into San Francisco, CA on Interstate 80, take a look at our iconic billboard, which will be painted rainbow in celebration with messages of encouragement
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Yahoo is committed to making our company a best place to work for the LGBTQ community and has been recognized for the past 10 years by the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, scoring a perfect 100 each time. With the help of our ERG, we strive to maintain a strong culture of diversity and equality by building a safe workplace. We continually educate our employees on LGBTQ rights to ensure our employees can always feel proud of who they are. Happy Pride Month to all of our users and our employees!

Yahoo News’ Holly Bailey Wins a Deadline Club Award for Feature Photography

By Megan Liberman, Yahoo News Editor in Chief

Yahoo News national correspondent Holly Bailey is primarily a writer and reporter, but as of this week she can add “award-winning photographer” to her resume. On Monday night she was honored with a Deadline Club Award in the Feature Photo category for “Donald Trump’s America,” her original series on Yahoo News.

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As Holly traveled the country over the last year chronicling Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, she found herself pulling out her phone at odd moments between speeches and rallies, and training it less often on the candidate himself than on the people and props that were the backdrop to his stunning ascent.  Holly captured these images without judgment or irony, and served them up to us as a compelling album of an unprecedented year in American history.

Holly, who used just an iPhone as her camera, was competing for the Deadline Award against career photographers with the latest professional equipment, making this achievement even more remarkable.

The Deadline Club, founded in New York City in 1925, is the nation’s largest chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.  Their prestigious awards program received more than 500 entries this year from New York metropolitan area news outlets large and small, spanning traditional, digital, and nonprofit.

We’ve long been proud to feature Holly’s writing on our site (did I mention she’s also an award-winning author?) and we’re thrilled to see these amazing photos recognized. Who knows what talent she’ll uncover next.

It Takes a Village: The Yahoo Omaha Way

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By Jacqie Leise, Sr Mgr, Account Operations, Yahoo

It’s amazing to see Yahoo and Habitat for Humanity team up for such an important project in our area. I am thrilled to work for a company that is willing to give back to the community in such a personal way. It’s truly amazing to see everyone in our community come together.  

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The old adage ‘it takes a village’ is alive and well here in Omaha. Today, Omaha’s Habitat for Humanity hosted a 24-hour online charitable challenge for the metro area, which included a special “Sign a Stud” event at the Yahoo office.

The day’s charitable event represented a great cause for our communities in greater Omaha, but our Yahoo event was the culmination of something even more special to me, my family and the Yahoo community.

A fatal natural gas explosion in July 2016 destroyed a rental home owned by my husband and me, and sadly took the life of 30-year-old Omaha property inspector Clara Bender-Rinehart. It was a tragic and horrible accident that left us wondering how we were going to move on and how we could possibly help the neighborhood clean up their homes.

We knew that donating this property to a deserving family would help facilitate a positive outcome in the wake of such tragedy. It was our partnership with Habitat for Humanity that helped turn this idea into a reality. Habitat Omaha quickly provided the resources and organizational support to start reconstruction on the property.

While working with Habitat, we learned that the Yahoo Employee Foundation (YEF) had decided to grant $75,000 to Habitat for Humanity of Omaha. YEF is a grassroots, philanthropic organization that provides Yahoo employees easy and accessible ways to give back to their communities. Since 1999, YEF has granted more than $20 million in more than 1,000 grants to hundreds of organizations globally. We immediately requested that these funds be used to rebuild on our property.

We’re happy to report that construction will begin in September, and, to kick this off, Habitat Omaha and Yahoo’s Omaha office hosted a “Sign a Stud” event today to help raise additional funding and awareness of the effort to rebuild the block that was devastated by the gas explosion. Yahoo employees had the opportunity to sign their name on a 2x4 stud that will be used in the construction of the house and were also invited to participate in rebuilding the property through a volunteer day this fall.

Teach Access Wins Knowbility Award for Educational Achievement

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Mike Shebanek, Yahoo Senior Director of Accessibility

I’m very excited to share that Teach Access, an initiative to include accessibility and universal design principles in the curricula of computer scientists, designers and researchers in undergraduate, graduate and continuing education, has won the Knowbility, Inc. award for Educational Achievement! Yahoo is a founding member of the project.

Teach Access was created by a coalition of tech companies, universities and advocates for people with disabilities. Its mission is to expand awareness and knowledge of accessible technology development in higher education through approaches such as faculty bootcamps, guest lectures, internships, challenge grants for research and curriculum development and industry partnerships. Teach Access also builds open source online learning tools that reflect and teach accessibility best practices. The tools are widely available to individuals, companies and organizations. In addition, Teach Access has developed job descriptions that include preference for accessibility knowledge to support recruitment activities and to extend the post-secondary foundation through “on the job training” in product and service development.

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Image: Knowbility Award.  Inscription reads Knowbility is pleased to recognize Teach Access for Educational Achievement for creating and promoting an initiative to include accessibility and universal design principles in college and university curricula. 2017 Community Heroes of Accessibility Awards.

This is an extremely proud moment for Teach Access and its members and supporters as we continue our pursuit to bring accessible design and development skills into college classrooms.  

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An Out-Of-This-World Selfie

British European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peak is on the International Space Station for a six-month mission lasting until the beginning of June. Check out Tim’s Flickr photostream for more photos of his mission.

Tim took this selfie during his spacewalk on Friday, January 15 2016. More information here.

Photo Credit: ESA/NASA 

NASA Releases the Images of the Antares Rocket Launch Failure

NASA recently uploaded remarkable photos of the Orbital ATK Antares rocket launch failure on October 28th 2014 to their Flickr account.

The images document the explosion in the Antares Main Engine System that caused the vehicle to lose thrust and fall back toward the ground. According to NASA, the Cygnus spacecraft onboard of the rocket was filled with supplies slated for the International Space Station, including science experiments, experiment hardware, spare parts, and crew provisions.

Explore this and more images from NASA HQ’s photostream and be sure to follow them if you want more updates about the space agency.

NASA Journey to Mars and “The Martian" (201508180006HQ) by NASA HQ PHOTO Via Flickr: Actor Matt Damon, who stars as NASA Astronaut Mark Watney in the film “The Martian,” participates in a question and answer session, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, at the...High-res

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Actor Matt Damon, who stars as NASA Astronaut Mark Watney in the film “The Martian,” participates in a question and answer session, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, at the United Artist Theater in La Cañada Flintridge, California. NASA scientists and engineers served as technical consultants on the film. The movie portrays a realistic view of the climate and topography of Mars, based on NASA data, and some of the challenges NASA faces as we prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet in the 2030s. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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“Hevesleri, beklentileri, erteledikleri, kursağında kalmış kelimeleri, kaçırılmış bakışları, gizledikleri, bitirilmemiş mektupları, susuşları ve istemsiz veda edişleriyle tamamlanmamış bir cümledir insan.”

“A culled man who is not complete with his attitudes, anticipations, postponements, words left in his mouth, missed gazes, secrets, unfinished letters, silence, and involuntary farewells.”

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Reeds and Islands

Self-taught nature photographer David Frutos dwells in Murcia, Southeast Spain, and captures the incredible essence of the Mediterranean coast like a mystical dream.

David lives less than 75 kilometers from one of the best places he’s ever been—the Camarillas Swamp in Albacete, Spain. Many of the photos for which he won prestigious international awards have come from this particular location that he has managed to turn into a beautiful, magical spot.

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Botanical Greenhouse Aarhus 03 by weyerdk on Flickr. Architect: C.F. Møller Architects, 1969 + 2014 Engineer: Søren Jensen engineers. Landscape architect: C.F. Møller Landscape “The snail-shaped hothouse in the Botanic Garden in Aarhus is a national...High-res

Botanical Greenhouse Aarhus 03 by weyerdk on Flickr.

Architect: C.F. Møller Architects, 1969 + 2014
Engineer: Søren Jensen engineers.
Landscape architect: C.F. Møller Landscape

“The snail-shaped hothouse in the Botanic Garden in Aarhus is a national icon in hothouse architecture. It was designed in 1969 by C.F. Møller Architects, and is well adapted to its surroundings. Accordingly, it was important to bear the existing architectural values in mind when designing a new hothouse to replace the former palm house which had been literally outgrown.” - weyerdk

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Reeds and Islands

Self-taught nature photographer David Frutos dwells in Murcia, Southeast Spain, and captures the incredible essence of the Mediterranean coast like a mystical dream.

David lives less than 75 kilometers from one of the best places he’s ever been—the Camarillas Swamp in Albacete, Spain. Many of the photos for which he won prestigious international awards have come from this particular location that he has managed to turn into a beautiful, magical spot.

Follow this link to learn more.

Why Not Now?

Hayden Korr is a surviving student activist attending that same high school in which tragedy struck. Although becoming a full time photojournalist is one of her greatest aspirations, she has already touched souls with the influence of her timeless black and white rally photographs.

On February 14th, 2018 one of the world’s most deadliest school shootings occurred in Parkland, Florida. Seventeen individuals were killed, and seventeen were wounded. This massacre sparked the March For Our Lives movement which in turn has created hundreds of rallies and marches across the country. Student-led efforts are dominating this political warfare in attempts to raise awareness of gun violence issues.

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“I thought that this rally was one of the most emotional experiences I have ever witnessed, so I had to express that.” Two of Hayden Korr’s biggest fears are “not documenting the right things and not documenting enough.” This has propelled her deep into the work of a true artist with wholesome intentions and daunting challenges.

To read more, check out the full article on our blog.  

Niagara Falls Sunset

Niagara Falls Sunset by Marcela
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Another one of the sun setting over Niagara Falls, Ontario as viewed from the New York side. American Falls in the foreground and the mist from the Horseshoe Falls can be seen in the distance.

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Humans will need to communicate with a robot the same way they communicate with one another. This brings us a little closer to that future.

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Oh, @nasa is going to snap that perfect picture of the cosmos, all right. Even if it means cutting a giant hole in a 747 to get it. 

Read More: Take a Ride in the 747 NASA Turned Into a Giant Telescope

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Manila has 36,000 people per square mile, making it one of the most densely populated cities in the world. The density is even higher in the 500 slums that line the city’s rivers, railroad tracks, and garbage dumps, where you can find more than 200,000 people per square mile.

See More: Staggering Views of Manila’s Insanely Crowded Slums

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Today WIRED.com and its social channels reflect the absence of the women on our staff.

Today WIRED.com and its social channels reflect the absence of the women on our staff.

  • March 8
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The lightning tracker on one of NOAA’s weather satellites is an absolute pleasure to watch. 

Read More: This Lightning Tracker Is Way Better Than Your Average Storm Chaser

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  • March 7
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“KILL IT WITH FIRE. Also, preserve and celebrate it for its remarkably superior form. ” Read More: Humans Are Getting Scarily Good At Creating Bipedal Beasts

KILL IT WITH FIRE. Also, preserve and celebrate it for its remarkably superior form.

Read More: Humans Are Getting Scarily Good At Creating Bipedal Beasts

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  • March 1
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Read More: Inside the Bangkok Factory Where 275,000 Tennis Balls Are Made Each Day

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  • February 27
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80 feet tall. 120 feet wide. Big enough to hold a Boeing 737. This is the biggest wind tunnel in the world.

Read More: The Giant Wind Tunnel at NASA Is Unbelievable

  • February 27
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“As the past 30 years of press history shows, everything changes. Great journalism helps us understand how and why things change, and we need that now more than ever. ” Read More: Fake news is everywhere. Here’s how the internet can stop it

As the past 30 years of press history shows, everything changes. Great journalism helps us understand how and why things change, and we need that now more than ever.

Read More: Fake news is everywhere. Here’s how the internet can stop it

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Andres Marti studied fine arts and design at the Pontificia Universidad in Bogota, Colombia. Six years ago, he co-founded the art brand Comes Cake and design studio Whatever Works allowing him to work within various realms of art including advertising, design, fashion, music, and photography. His work within the field of photography has caught quite a lot of attention due to its ironic uniqueness. Read more

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Yahoo Search

Our Newest Bot Makes Family Coordination A Breeze

By Shani Clark, Senior Director, Product Management

We all know how busy life can get. It can be challenging to remember what we need at the grocery store or the schedule for the next soccer practice.

Now, available in the U.S., Captain is a bot assistant that helps manage lists and reminders for you and your family via text message. Gone are the days of interrupting your spouse’s workday with updated carpool information and fielding text messages from your kids about what they need from the store. And say goodbye to downloading apps to try and stay organized.

Captain streamlines family communications for sharing activities, setting reminders and updating a master shopping list. Text Captain to remind your partner to pick up the kids on Friday at 11am or add “paper towels and sugar” to the shopping list in real-time while they’re at the store. If you forget what’s on tap for the day, just ask Captain.  

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Using Captain is simple – nothing new to download, no passwords to remember – just text “Hi” to 773-786. Captain will text back setup instructions. Sprint customers will need to unblock shortened links to begin the process.


Give Captain a try and tell us what you think!

Introducing Yahoo Answers Now – A New App for the Q&A Community

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By Tim Su, Director, Engineering

Many questions, such as “what should I get my 50-year-old mother for the holidays?” or “what should photography hobbyists do when visiting Miami this weekend?” require human experience and insight to answer fully. Yahoo Answers was an early entry point for users to ask their community for insight and 300 million people sign on monthly to ask others for guidance.

Today, we’re excited to announce Yahoo Answers Now, which re-imagines the Q&A experience for mobile users. Available on iOS and Android phones in the U.S., the app helps users pose questions and receive quality answers quickly from members who have relevant experiences and expertise.

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Key features include:

  • Matching: When you ask a question, we route it to qualified responders who have the experiences and expertise to provide a high quality answer.
  • Following: Gone are the days of having to manually remember user profiles. Follow users you respect to easily stay connected.
  • Give thanks: Use the “thank you” and emoji buttons to express appreciation.  
  • Rich media: Craft awesome answers with a wider assortment of media, including images and links.
  • Blazing fast: Get notified immediately when someone answers your question or thanks you for a great answer.
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Download Yahoo Answers Now from the App Store or Play Store today to give these features a whirl and tap into the insight of our community!

Big thanks to our early users for the great feedback. We’re always interested in additional feedback, so please keep sharing (select the “Send Feedback” option in the app)!

Yahoo Brings on the Fun Bots: Trivia with Friends and a Traveling Monkeypet

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By Sanford Moskowitz, Product Management

In time for Thanksgiving break, Yahoo is bringing you a couple servings of fun-loving bots to liven up the long weekend.  

Popchat (@popchat), available on Kik for Android and iOS, is the perfect bot for trivia lovers to play with old friends and make new friends who share your trivia interests. Pick from a variety of categories – including music, TV and movies, crazy facts and more – then game on. You can chat during games to keep the competition exciting or challenge yourself in a single player game, all within Kik. 

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Our emoji-loving pet monkey, announced this summer and available on Kik and Messenger, is growing up! Monkeypet is hitting the road, ocean and skies in search of travel adventures. It can report on weather and news from around the world, as well as search the web for whatever content you’re interested in finding. Monkeypet has also learned to retrieve images, GIFs, and videos so you can have rich conversations with your friends. Say or type “skills” to check out these and our digital monkey’s other new talents.

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With these bots, we continue to bring you engaging and entertaining experiences. Whether you are looking to expand your games collection, make new friends or train your Monkeypet, there’s a bot for that.

For a voice in improving these bots or shaping Yahoo’s future bots experience, share your thoughts with our team using the “Feedback” option.

Step Up Your Yahoo Fantasy Football Game with Blitz Bot

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By Matt Buckle and Sumukh Anand, Engineering

As Week 8 of fantasy football kicks off, Yahoo is bringing you Blitz, available on the new Yahoo Bots app, to give you an extra edge in your league and dominate into the playoffs.

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Blitz, our newest bot, is your ultimate assistant for all things fantasy football. Need quick help researching that hot waiver wire add? Have a few players on bye week and need advice on who to start in their place? Whether you’re sitting at 4-3, below .500, or just want to stay on top of your league, Blitz is the perfect tool to pair with our award-winning Yahoo Sports Fantasy app and help take your team to the next level.

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Synced directly to your fantasy football team on Yahoo Sports, Blitz can swap out players in your starting lineup, pick up free agents, and give you the latest information on which players can help you win this week and beyond.

The new Yahoo Bots app brings you Blitz, along with the Yahoo bots —Yahoo Weather, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo News and Monkey Pets — that you know and love in a single app. Download it to your mobile phone today from the App Store or Play Store.

Yahoo Search Brings the Rio Games Front and Center

By Zhen Jiang Zhuang and Karen Chin, Product Management, Yahoo Search

What did Gisele wear on the Rio catwalk? Did Hope Solo evoke cheers or jeers? Who are the contenders for the men’s 200 meter individual medley? Look no further than Yahoo Search to get up-to-speed on what’s happening in Rio.

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Visual cards provide easy access to dynamic content – medal count, live schedule and other updates – and to statistics such as profiles on athletes, countries and venues. Yahoo is bringing these experiences directly to the Search results page, making it that much easier for you to find the information you seek.

As the games heat up, you can count on Yahoo Search to experience Rio on desktop, mobile and tablet.

Happy searching and may the best country win!

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Yahoo Summer Search Trends Find People Prefer Vacation Rentals 3:1 Over Hotels

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By Teresa Block, Senior Search Editor

Summer, the busiest travel and vacation season of the year, is in full swing. So, Yahoo analyzed data from millions of your searches and discovered how you’re celebrating the summer months.

Some surprising finds?

  • Vacation rentals are in and hotels are out. Combined, Airbnb and VRBO are 3X more popular than the No. 1 hotel chain, Marriott.
  • The number one destination this summer is Denver, Colorado beating out warmer destinations like San Diego, California and New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • BBQ classics are also getting a run for their money. Tuna salad made with cottage cheese in place of mayo (who would have guessed?) beat out beloved traditional dishes like pasta salad.
  • Fun inflatable rafts are all the rage with island floats coming in at #1, but apparently we also love swimming with the birds - swans are #4, followed by flamingos at #5.

Find out more, like where people are traveling and what airlines they’re using to get there, in the infographic below.

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New Yahoo Search Updates – Just in Time for the Big Game, the Primaries & the Oscars

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By Paul Yiu, VP, Search Product Management

How is the Carolina Panthers’ defense? Who’s leading in the polls? Will Leo take home an award? We know you’re looking for answers so we’ve made a few changes to Yahoo Search on mobile web in the U.S. to bring your answers up front. Just pick up your iPhone!

Studying up before the Big Game?

Now, with a quick search for the Carolina Panthers or the Denver Broncos, you can see past score and schedule information, find the top performing players, and check out their entire roster, complete with current stats. Just click on an athlete, like Cam Newton, to learn more. We’ll even show you the live score as the two teams face off next weekend. And if you’re looking for a Golden State Warriors update, getting ready for MLB season or just want to learn more about the NHL, we’ve got you covered! Yahoo Search shows you the information you want for the “Big Four” and all major soccer leagues.

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Following the 2016 presidential candidates ahead of the Iowa primary?

Since we know you often search for the latest poll results, how much money a candidate’s campaign has raised and top contributors, we want you to have access to this information without having to search-click, search-click, search. Without leaving the search results page, a query for a presidential hopeful will bring you this information up front. You can also research a candidate’s stance on big issues like healthcare and national security, to get up to speed and pick the right presidential hopeful in the upcoming primary.

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Prepping for the Oscars?

A simple search for The Revenant, nominated for “Best Picture,” “Cinematography,” “Costume Design” and more, will get you to the results you’re looking for. Immediately find showtimes in a theater near you and what others think about it – 84% on Rotten Tomatoes – sounds like a must see. Not sure if it’s for you yet? You can also check out the trailer or a brief description. We’ll even bring you recommendations of other movies you might like.

And it isn’t only for the “big screen” – these awesome search results work for TV too. A search for Homeland will bring you the last aired episode, along with the list of seasons, taking you directly to get more details about an episode you’re interested in, who starred in it, and where you can stream it.

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With all of these searches, we’ll continue to pull out the top news, social chatter and relevant images for you. Ready to get started? Just open your favorite mobile browser today and search on Yahoo. You can also open your mobile browser’s settings and set Yahoo as your default search engine.

A Few Updates to Yahoo Search on Mobile Web

By Alok Agarwal, Director of Product

Before 2015 comes to a close, we’d like to share some of the many improvements we’ve made in recent weeks to Yahoo Search on mobile web in the U.S. Through constant iteration and experimentation, our aim is that collectively, these small but mighty changes will connect you more immediately with the answers you’re looking for, and help you discover interesting and related information.

When searching for your favorite celebrity, you’ll notice:

  • Twitter integration: In today’s connected world, the best answers include the conversations and commentary that are happening on social media. Now, we’ll connect you immediately with top tweets related to your celebrity searches right on the results page.
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  • A new image search: We’re bringing you a new way to discover pictures of your favorite celebrities. Find photos of the celebrity first, then explore additional photo sets based on trending content that other users have engaged with– be it photos of Angelina Jolie’s wedding dress, tattoos, red carpet look and more. 
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When searching for the news of the day, you’ll see:

  • A results refresh: Now you can stay on top of the latest news stories right from the search results page. We’ve also tweaked our algorithm to bring you the most recent and popular stories up top in the news results stream.
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  • We’re AMP compatible: News in Yahoo Search on mobile web is now compatible with a recently released mobile web standard for Accelerated Mobile Pages (ie: AMP). AMP architecture is designed for pages to load super fast on Mobile. News pages published with AMP would automatically direct users to that experience on Yahoo Search.

You can take advantage of these updates by opening your favorite mobile browser today and searching on Yahoo. You can also open your mobile browser’s settings and set Yahoo as your default search engine.

Stay tuned for more in the new year!

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Finding & Keeping Purpose

Dauntlessly spirited Rosie Hardy is a surreal fine arts photographer in a small town near Glossop, England, where she has access to the wild, forest like territory the majority of her photos encompass. She is currently working on a 365-day challenge, but not for any reason you may immediately assume.

Her 365-day challenge began six weeks after the passing of her boyfriend, Tim, who was devastatingly taken too soon after a batting melanoma. “It was my first big grief, and it’s only looking back that I can understand the magnitude the loss held. A few weeks in, I was struggling to get out of bed, find direction or purpose, and having started a 365 when I first picked up a camera at 17, reattempting the project seemed a fitting way to make sure I didn’t let photography slip away from me, too.”

Rosie explains how this challenge helped convey more than she expected. “It gave me something to think about other than his death, it gave me a way to channel my emotional state into something productive, it gave me connection and support from the people who’d followed my work and journey, and for that, I am so grateful.”

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Rosie believes that art should be a reflection of the artist. She feels encouraged to take bigger emotional risks because she is confident in her photography’s ability to help her recover from even the greatest loss. In the same respect, her work is also based on intent. Her photography has and will never be about being “gallery worthy” or aesthetically neat, it’s about feeling good during the creation process- especially during the 365 project.

Her creation process goes above and beyond the typical, as it’s layered in her own passions. Although Rosie describes poetry as something she “dabbles” in, the captions of her photos are almost always beautiful enough to be considered poetry. Her exceedingly candid and forthright captions regularly give her followers a bitter taste of reality, layered in sweet sorrow and thoughtful, compelling prose.

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Rosie has refused to sit in the passenger’s seat of life and has instead decided to utilize the good in life to create, to listen to cinematic classical music, take her kayaks onto the nearby lake and daydream up ideas for shoots.

The sincerity in her online presence has earned her a whopping 137.6 thousand followers. Her ability to be frank with her thoughts came from the fact that being a virtual public figure, she was going to be scrutinized at every angle anyway, so she might as well be judged for being her authentic self. Furthermore, this honesty has taken her to new heights the more she has studied behavioral psychology. Being able to express fear, grief, or other like issues is integral in a healthy process of moving forward. For her, this ingenuous sharing of her personal life has become “cathartic, artistic and integral to the structure” of her life.

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If she could give one piece of advice to her younger self, it would be to put less pressure on herself to create photos with the perfect outcome. “I’d have more patience with the learning process, and also maintain that it’s more important to be passionate about what it is you want to get out of your system by creating the piece, than the piece itself!”

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The photo above was chosen by the band Maroon 5 to use as their album cover art. Being chosen was not only an incredible accomplishment, but quite the relief as projects like these are what eases one of Rosie’s biggest fears- becoming a photographer who she doesn’t recognise. Only a small portion of her income comes from her personal work featured on Flickr, instagram, portfolio & Facebook. The majority of her income is derived from weddings, musician shoots and workshops. Although large brands are constantly requesting her talent, she remains highly selective of whom she chooses to work with in fear of the possibility she’ll over monetize her passion and “forget the reason I create what I create.”

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Rosie will be speaking at Hagley Camera Club on April 10 – the ticket and raffle proceeds will be donated to her late boyfriend’s charity, the Tim Bacon Foundation.

Bridging the Gap

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As a dedication to victims of universal queer hate crimes, Rob Woodcox uses his photographs to symbolize his belief in love and equality.

His fine art images have been featured on dozens of magazines and media sites, but what makes Woodcox’s work unique is his ability to make viewers question where the subjects come from by incorporating “strange or interesting elements.” See for yourself in our latest interview.

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Tumblr is so easy to use that it’s hard to explain.

We made it really, really simple for people to make a blog and put whatever they want on it. Stories, photos, GIFs, TV shows, links, quips, dumb jokes, smart jokes, Spotify tracks, mp3s, videos, fashion, art, deep stuff. Tumblr is 463 million different blogs, filled with literally whatever.

Tumblr is blogs.

Turns out that when you make it easy to create interesting things, that’s exactly what people do. All those great, random blogs your friends send you, those are Tumblr blogs. We’ll help you find and follow blogs like that, and we’ll help other people find and follow yours.

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Yahoo Finance

Yahoo Finance Announces New Talent and Production Hires for Daily Bell-to-Bell Coverage

Yahoo Finance has hired a new anchor and top producers in recent weeks leading up to and following the launch of Yahoo Finance’s 8-hours of live full market coverage. These new strategic hires include:

Akiko Fujita joins the team today as an on-air anchor/reporter, coming from CNBC International where she was previously the Hong Kong-based co-host of Squawk Box Asia. Akiko will work across the daily live shows, covering markets and other stories of the day.

In addition to co-anchoring Squawk Box Asia out of Hong Kong, Akiko also reported across the region, with a heavy focus on the tech sector, and covered some of the biggest political stories in the region, including the Trump-Kim Summit. Prior to CNBC, Akiko was a Tokyo-based correspondent for ABC News, where she led network coverage of the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan.

A Los Angeles native, Akiko is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where she majored in Broadcast Journalism and International Relations.

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Akiko Fujita pictured above 

McKenzie Stratigopoulos joined Yahoo Finance as the producer of, “The Ticker.” For the past two years, McKenzie was a producer at the Fox Business Network, most recently working as the line producer of “Mornings with Maria.”

Meghan Fitzgerald joined Yahoo Finance as an associate producer. Previously, Meghan worked as a booker/producer for Fox News Channel.

Bridgette Webb started recently as an associate producer, having spent the past year and a half at Cheddar. Previously, Bridgette was a segment producer for Bloomberg Television.

Alexandra Canal joins Yahoo Finance as an associate producer. She joins the team from “PEOPLE Now,” PEOPLE.com’s daily digital live show.

Grete Suarez joins Yahoo Finance as an associate producer. Grete was previously a segment producer at Fox Business’ “Cavuto: Coast to Coast.”

Devin Southard comes from Envision Networks where she was the senior booker and producer for morning drive radio shows across the country. At Yahoo Finance, Devin is a segment producer focusing on guest booking across multiple programs.

Sarah Smith joins the team as a segment producer. For the past two years, Sarah was a production assistant at The Today Show.

Marabia Smith is now a segment producer for “On the Move.” Marabia was previously a broadcast associate for CBS This Morning.

Last month Yahoo Finance extended its daily live programming to eight hours which includes six daily shows and an additional special weekly program hosted by Yahoo Finance’s editor in chief,  “Influencers with Andy Serwer,” on Thursdays at 5pm ET. Throughout the day, anchors and analysts provide expert commentary on breaking news, political stories, pop culture moments and the day’s stock market activity.

Follow Yahoo Finance on Social Media:

Twitter: @YahooFinance

Instagram: @yahoofinance

Facebook: YahooFinance

LinkedIn: Yahoo-Finance

YouTube: YahooFinance

Want to join the conversation? Tweet at @YahooFinance with your questions and comments for a chance to be featured on a show.

Yahoo Finance Kicks Off Eight Hours of Live Video Programming on Monday, January 7th

The top business and finance news platform to showcase bell-to-bell market coverage through daily shows and special events

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On Monday, January 7th, 2019 beginning at 9am ET, Yahoo Finance extends its daily live programming to eight hours. The business and finance platform’s bell-to-bell coverage will feature six daily shows, with an additional special weekly program hosted by Yahoo Finance’s editor in chief,  “Influencers with Andy Serwer,” on Thursdays at 5pm ET. Throughout the day, anchors and analysts will provide commentary on breaking news, political stories, pop culture moments and the day’s stock market activity.

All programs will stream on Yahoo Finance, the Yahoo Finance app, and Apple TV, with select shows and special events available live and on-demand via Yahoo on the Roku Channel.

To achieve this milestone, Yahoo Finance has recently grown its staff and increased content production from three to eight hours of live programming, welcoming leading anchors including: Adam Shapiro (formerly of Fox Business), Julie Hyman (formerly of Bloomberg TV) and Jackie DeAngelis (formerly of CNBC), who join Yahoo Finance veterans: Alexis Christoforous, Jen Rogers, Myles Udland, Seana Smith, Dan Roberts and Melody Hahm.

PROGRAMMING LINEUP:

**all times shown in EST

9:00AM – The First Trade (formerly Market Movers) Market preview and opening bell coverage, bringing you the headlines expected to drive the day’s market action. Heavily investor-focused content combined with the top stories (news, sports, entertainment) away from finance/business.

10:00AM – YFi AM (formerly Morning Meeting) Yahoo Finance’s conversational morning chat show covering not only the top headlines, but stories that are driving the most “buzz.”

11:00AM – On the Move (formerly Midday Movers) A look at the top headlines and in depth analysis of what is moving the markets.

1:00PM – YFi PM (new show) Yahoo Finance’s conversational afternoon chat show covering not only the top headlines, but stories that are driving the most “buzz.”

2:00PM – The Ticker (new show) Each day, we’ll focus this hour on the top 10 tickers driving the day’s action. The program will highlight Yahoo Finance’s proprietary data analysis on which stocks are receiving the most clicks from our members and those “Tickers” will be highlighted on “The Ticker.”

3:00PM – The Final Round (extended) Looking ahead to the closing bell, covering the most important business news stories of the day, what’s driving the markets and what to expect in the days and weeks ahead.  

5:00PM on Thursday – Influencers with Andy Serwer (new show) Yahoo Finance presents Influencers with Andy Serwer, a weekly interview series. Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer will sit down with some of the biggest names in business, politics, entertainment, sports, and academia. ‘Influencers’ will focus on industry trends, the macro economy and issues of the day through a business lens. Guests include: Barry Diller, Jill Abramson, Danny Meyer, Glenn Hutchins, Jean Case, Darren Walker, Tarana Burke, and more.

For any media requests, please contact YFiPR@oath.com

Follow Yahoo Finance on Social Media:

Twitter: @YahooFinance

Instagram: @yahoofinance

Facebook: YahooFinance

LinkedIn: Yahoo-Finance

YouTube: YahooFinance

Want to join the conversation? Tweet at @YahooFinance with your questions and comments for a chance to be featured on a show

Want to help spread the news? Tweet:@ YahooFinance launches live bell to bell coverage today. Stream on the YFi app or online at finance.yahoo.com #YahooFinance

Yahoo Finance Announces New Paid Subscription Offering for Investors

Yahoo Finance Premium to Launch in 2019, Unlocking Access to Exclusive Tools, Proprietary Data and Industry-Leading Research

NEW YORK – November 13, 2018 – Yahoo Finance, one of the largest business and financial news sites in the world, today announced Yahoo Finance Premium, the platform’s new paid subscription offering for retail investors. The service, which is slated to launch in the first quarter of 2019, will enable users to formulate their investment strategy through access to premium tools, unique proprietary data sets and industry-leading research.

Yahoo Finance Premium will serve as a one-stop destination for subscribers, providing all of the tools and information needed to make informed investment decisions and act upon them. Subscribers will be able to:

  • Analyze companies beyond their fundamentals by evaluating key operating metrics against sector averages to gain new insights into hiring, innovation and supply chain dependencies.
  • Identify new investment ideas through short and long term valuation metrics and significant technical trading events.
  • Access independent research reports and trade ideas on individual stocks and sectors.

These new capabilities will be integrated into Yahoo Finance’s existing desktop and app products, allowing paid users to chart, screen and analyze these new data sets.

“At Yahoo Finance, we’re constantly driven to better serve our members by helping them stay informed and manage their money as we build a next generation, global financial platform,” said Joanna Lambert, General Manager of Finance, Tech and Auto at Verizon Media Group/Oath. “Yahoo Finance is committed to empowering our members with trusted tools, data and news. Our new subscription offering is one example of the membership opportunities ahead as we focus on creating deeper relationships that open new possibilities for both our members and advertisers.”

Once available to the general public, the subscription service will be accessible via desktop, mobile web, iOS and Android. All of the data, insights and content currently provided to investors and financial news enthusiasts on Yahoo Finance will continue to be available for free.  

Today’s announcement caps off a year of unprecedented growth for Yahoo Finance. The organization has doubled in size, hiring engineers, producers, on-air talent, editors and graphics experts. Yahoo Finance recently expanded its live daily programming to five hours and will unveil eight hours of bell-to-bell coverage on January 7th, 2019. As of November, original programs are also available on The Roku Channel, marking the organization’s first OTT distribution partnership. In the months ahead, Yahoo Finance will continue to innovate, adding interactive tools to better engage audiences in a multi-screen environment.

Verizon Media Group/Oath:  

Verizon Media Group/Oath is a division of Verizon at the intersection of media, advertising and technology building a member-centric ecosystem created to serve billions. Verizon Media Group/Oath is shaping the future as a global leader in digital and mobile. For more information, visit www.oath.com.

YAHOO FINANCE HIRES JULIE HYMAN

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Yahoo Finance today announced that veteran finance broadcaster Julie Hyman will join as anchor, part of the on-going video expansion and increased live market coverage.

“We are thrilled that Julie is joining our team,” said Andy Hoffman, Senior Executive Producer of Yahoo Finance. “She is an all-star journalist who brings passion and intelligence to the reporting of financial content.”

Hyman has covered financial markets for 20 years, spending the bulk of her career at Bloomberg Television. There, she served in a number of roles, most recently as senior markets correspondent, and previously as anchor; retail reporter; and correspondent at the NYSE and Nasdaq. She has interviewed newsmakers including Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Canopy Growth CEO Bruce Linton, as well as veteran investors Mohamed El-Erian of Allianz; fund manager Bill Miller; and Scott Minerd of Guggenheim. She joined Bloomberg as a reporter covering European stocks, in the Paris bureau. Hyman began her career at the Washington Times. She grew up outside Baltimore and attended Randolph-Macon College.

“Yahoo Finance is redefining the digital media experience for our unprecedented audience of investors around the globe,” said Joanna Lambert, General Manager of Finance and Tech at Oath. “Bringing in top talent, such as Julie, reflects our commitment to producing high quality content driven by world class reporting.  Her impressive experience will make an immediate impact as we continue to grow our live programming.”

Hyman is that latest in a string of high profile new hires for Yahoo Finance – spanning production, studios, talent and editorial – including Lulu Chiang, Adam Shapiro, and others. She will be based in Yahoo Finance’s New York City bureau, at the headquarters of parent company Oath.

Lulu Chiang and Adam Shapiro join Yahoo Finance

Today, Yahoo Finance announced two new hires to accelerate its live events programming and news coverage. Business and financial news veterans Lulu Chiang and Adam Shapiro join the organization during a period of unprecedented growth, as Yahoo Finance further cements its position among the leading business and financial platforms in the world.

“We’re investing in the best talent in the industry so that we can continue to create high quality programming for the Yahoo Finance audience,” said Joanna Lambert, general manager of finance and tech at Oath. “Lulu and Adam represent just that – seasoned professionals who have a proven track record of delivering outstanding results at the highest level. We are thrilled to welcome them to the Yahoo Finance team, and we’re looking forward to their contributions to our events programming and news reporting.”

Lulu Chiang has been named Senior Executive Producer, Live Events. In this role, she will help scale the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit series, the latest installation of which is being held in New York City today. Chiang  will facilitate the appearances of world-renowned public figures at Yahoo Finance events. She arrives at the company from CBS News, where she spent six years overseeing breaking news coverage and guest bookings for the network’s flagship programs.

“I’m really looking forward to working with Lulu to build out our live events endeavors,” says Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer. “Lulu has the ideal skill set for the job.”

Adam Shapiro is joining as Anchor. An Emmy-winning journalist with decades of experience in reporting, he will play a critical role in advancing Yahoo Finance’s live-streamed business and financial news coverage . He joins Yahoo Finance from Fox News and Fox Business Network, where he has spent the past decade investigating and reporting on topics ranging from Bernie Madoff to the FAA’s air traffic controls.

Chiang and Shapiro are the latest in a series of hires for Yahoo Finance, as the company recently announced the addition of four new executives across its video production and studios team. Both Chiang and Shapiro will be based in Yahoo Finance’s New York City bureau, at the headquarters of parent company Oath.

Yahoo Finance Adds Cryptocurrency Trading Capabilities

Last year, Yahoo Finance added over 100 cryptocurrency quote pages across all platforms globally, giving audiences the unique ability to track coins and stay informed on the digital currency craze.

Yahoo Finance is now allowing users to act on that information, and trade cryptocurrency directly through its platform. The new feature, launched this week on the iOS app, allows users to buy and sell a variety of cryptocurrencies by linking their account – via an integration with our partners at TradeIt –  including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Dogecoin.  Android, desktop and mobile web are coming soon.

“As the leading provider of financial data, insights, and editorial content, we are constantly looking for ways to better serve audiences on the Yahoo Finance platform,” said Joanna Lambert, General Manager of Finance & Tech at Oath. “We first launched our integration with Trade It one year ago, allowing people to trade on Yahoo Finance for the first time ever.  We’re excited to expand this offering to cryptocurrencies, further connecting our passionate community of investors with relevant utilities on our trusted platform.”

Log in to Yahoo Finance to learn more.

Yahoo Finance Partners With Crunchbase To Integrate Private Company Data Onto Its Platform For The First Time

Yahoo Finance, the #1 business and financial news platform, today launched a partnership with Crunchbase to feature private company information for the first time ever. Available on U.S. desktop and mobile web, Yahoo Finance will now feature a subset of Crunchbase’s market-leading data, providing its audience with extensive insights into privately held organizations. The new product integration will allow Yahoo Finance users to easily access the essentials of a company, including investments and funding, leadership, M&A, industry trends, news and more.  

A rich and comprehensive snapshot of Crunchbase data can be viewed on individual company pages – similar to Yahoo Finance’s public company ticker pages – searchable through the navigation bar. Users will also be able to easily click out from Yahoo Finance to the Crunchbase platform for additional information.

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“Yahoo Finance is alway looking for new and meaningful ways to expand our offerings,” said Charles Hartel, Head of Product at Yahoo Finance. “This is our first foray into the private company sector, and we’re excited to partner with Crunchbase, to bring their market-leading information to our millions of users every day.”

This is just the latest product enhancement for Yahoo Finance, which already provides unrivaled access to financial data, insights and premium editorial content. Other recent launches include the exclusive availability of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) scores for publicly traded companies, mutual funds, and ETF’s, as well as integrated cryptocurrency features across all platforms, and the ability to facilitate trades directly via Yahoo Finance, both in-app and desktop.

Read more about the partnership on  Crunchbase, and visit Yahoo Finance to check out the integration.

Yahoo Finance Announces Four New Hires As Part of Its Ongoing Live-Video Expansion

Yahoo Finance, one of the leading business and financial platforms in the world, today announced a series of new hires across its rapidly growing video production and studios team.  

Andy Hoffman joins as senior executive producer. An Emmy Award–winning television executive and producer with more than 25 years’ experience in cable and broadcast news, Hoffman will oversee Yahoo Finance’s daily live programming, as it expands to eight full hours of market coverage. During his career, Hoffman has helped create and launch three cable networks: Fox Business Network, Court TV and Sports News Network. At Fox Business, Hoffman was one of the founding executive producers and served as EP of market hours for seven years. Previously, he was a senior producer at “Good Morning America” and at CNBC. Hoffman is a graduate of the University of Rochester and has a master’s degree from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

Vanessa Strouse-Kenney has joined as senior creative lead, combining her technical and editorial expertise to implement a new graphics and branding structure across all Yahoo Finance programs. In this role, she will also work closely with the ad-sales team to generate new creative branding opportunities for clients and partners. Strouse-Kenney is a broadcasting executive with more than 17 years’ experience focusing on media communications, visual branding, and digital development, including social media, marketing and broadcast programming. Vanessa began her career as a producer at CNBC before moving into graphic development where she oversaw the daily operations of the graphics department at MSNBC. In 2007, she helped launch Fox Business Network and served as the director of graphics operations for 10 years. Strouse-Kenney graduated with a B.A. in broadcast journalism from California State University, Long Beach.  

Han Ting Wang has joined as executive content supervisor. Wang will work closely with producers across the Yahoo Finance video platform to design and implement a sophisticated content packaging and distribution strategy, both on and off network. Previously, Wang was at CNBC for 12 years where he most recently built and grew the digital video team. He also ran “Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo” on CNBC TV.  Prior to CNBC, Ting oversaw Bloomberg TV’s early- and mid-morning live shows. Ting is a graduate of Georgetown University and received his M.A. in broadcast journalism at NYU.

Jennifer Sherwood is head of talent and booking. Sherwood will oversee all booking efforts and talent relations for Yahoo Finance’s daily live video programming, special events, and growing All Markets Summit conference franchise. Prior to joining Yahoo Finance, Sherwood spent more than 14 years as a booker for NBC News, working across a wide range of shows and special programs, including “Meet the Press,” “Dateline,” the newly launched one-hour biography series “Headliners,” “Where Were You? The Day JFK Died” with Tom Brokaw, “Barack Obama: Making History” with Chris Matthews, “Hubris: Selling The Iraq War” with Rachel Maddow, and many more. Jennifer has previously held roles with Radical Media and CBS News. Sherwood holds a B.A. in English and communications from Boston College.

“This latest infusion of talent reflects a deep commitment to quality content, as we continue to expand our live video platform on Yahoo Finance,” said Joanna Lambert, general manager of tech and finance at Oath. “Andy, Vanessa, Ting and Jennifer bring a tremendous wealth of experience. Combined, they have launched some of the biggest legacy brands in broadcast, worked to advance and transform their digital efforts, and helped them to reach audiences and partners in new ways. We’re excited for them to join our growing organization as we continue to push boundaries and pioneer new formats on Yahoo Finance.”

This is just the latest in a series of new hires for Yahoo Finance, which recently announced the addition of Lianna Brinded as U.K. head of finance and Alanna Petroff as senior economics reporter in the U.K., as part of Yahoo’s growing effort to expand its global presence.

Hoffman, Strouse-Kenney, Wang and Sherwood are based in Yahoo Finance’s New York City bureau, at the headquarters of parent company, Oath.    

Yahoo Finance brings the All Markets Summit: Crypto to San Francisco, featuring some of the biggest names in cryptocurrency

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On June 14, Yahoo Finance will host All Markets Summit: Crypto — the latest installment of the All Markets Summit original events franchise, and second live cryptocurrency summit this year  — at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center in San Francisco, and via live stream.

The all-day event will examine the global investment appetite for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and endeavor to answer some of the biggest questions surrounding these assets. Should individual investors have crypto in their portfolio; is it a legitimate investment; and will regulators impose stricter federal oversight?

Editor in Chief Andy Serwer and members of the Yahoo Finance editorial team will be joined on stage by an impressive line-up of influential entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, policy makers, and legal experts, including:  

  • Balaji Srinivasan – CTO, Coinbase and Co-Founder & CEO, Earn.com
  • Brian Hoffman – CEO and co-founder, OB1 and Project Lead, OpenBazaar
  • Michael Sonnenshein – Managing Director, Grayscale Investments
  • Cory Johnson – Chief Market Strategist, Ripple
  • Tonya Evans – University of New Hampshire School of Law
  • Grant Fondo – Digital Currency + Blockchain Technology Practice, Goodwin
  • Preethi Kasireedy – ‎Founder & CEO, ‎TruStory
  • Adam Draper – Founder & Managing Director, Boost VC
  • Alexia Bonatsos – Venture Capitalist
  • Meltem Demirors – Chief Strategy Officer, CoinShares
  • Mark Russinovich – Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Azure
  • Nick Tomaino – Founder, 1confirmation
  • Dan Held – Co-Founder, Picks & Shovels
  • Joseph Lubin – Ethereum co-founder and Consensys CEO
  • Keith Rabois – Managing Director, Khosla Ventures and Former Chief Operating Officer, Square
  • Emilie Choi – Head of M&A at Coinbase

The conference will be live-streamed free of charge on Yahoo Finance, with tickets available for purchase for the general public to attend the event. To purchase tickets and for the latest updates on the All Markets Summit participants and agenda, please visit: YahooFinanceAMS.com.

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“Galactic Rainbow” Niton, Isle Of Wight by Chad Powell
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Due to this image consisting of 50 individual photographs, all taken within the same hour, it took an incredibly long time to stitch together. All that being said, the end result is a 360 degree view of Castle Haven, showing off the entire Milky Way that arches above our heads starting in the south and finishing in the north. Very little adjustments to the milky way were needed, due to the incredibly clear night that evening. What you see here is the most natural colours of our galaxy, and the most accurate we’d see with our eyes if they were as sensitive to light as my camera. Also, the small smudge to the right of the left side of the milky way is in fact the Andromada Galaxy.

Water Path II.

Water Path II. by David Sangüesa
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Second picture of the series Water Path. (Horizontal view, a shorter long exposure to capture the movement of the waves over the path) Sunrise at the wonderful port of Villajoyosa -Alicante-. This autumn day was mostly cloudy, they moved very quickly so I decided to create this long exposure image. The whole way was covered by water and as a result, algae cling to it, making a walk a little dangerous to reach the small lighthouse. Gulls and Cormorants was occupied very relaxed, knowing that no one would be close by to disturb them. The calm that reigned in that port was a present to my senses. Image dedicated to my friend on Flickr Julián Solana (Tiogran), who met him in person that morning in his wonderful land. To reach this picture in one unique Raw, I used a grauated neutral 3 steps filter. I hope you like it. 

Niagara Falls Sunset

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Another one of the sun setting over Niagara Falls, Ontario as viewed from the New York side. American Falls in the foreground and the mist from the Horseshoe Falls can be seen in the distance.

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Yahoo User Nights: A Featured Case Study in New Textbook
June 19, 2017
State of the Art Accessibility for Yahoo Mail
June 14, 2017

State of the Art Accessibility for Yahoo Mail

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Alt Text: Yahoo Mail

By Mike Shebanek, Yahoo Senior Director of Accessibility

You may have heard that we just launched our new Yahoo Mail desktop experience that makes it even easier to access and organize all of the important information in your Inbox. The new version of desktop Mail has been completely redesigned from the ground up, sits on our latest tech stack, and is fast, reliable, and intuitive to use. It however also takes a huge leap forward for accessibility, with many user interface and assistive technology compatibility improvements.

Yahoo’s Accessibility team and the Yahoo Mail team have been closely working together from the beginning of this project to identify and address previous barriers to accessibility and efficiency, and the teams have poured themselves into this new release.

With the new Yahoo Mail experience, NVDA and VoiceOver screen reader users have access to the full desktop Yahoo Mail experience including threaded message viewing, stationery, animated gifs, emoji, and more. The Inbox is also now presented as a table which makes it faster and easier to use and allows you to control what information you hear about each message. For example, screen reader users can find or mark messages as read or unread, delete or star them, and know how many messages are in a thread all from the Inbox without first having to open the message.

In addition to a new beautiful design that reduces visual clutter and improves responsiveness, we’ve also updated the set of visual themes including a new “dark” theme that provides high contrast using a dark background with bright text. This is helpful for light-sensitive and low-vision users. There’s also a new Inbox spacing option that reduces the need to pan around the screen when using high magnification. Of course, Yahoo Mail is also fully navigable using a keyboard alone (i.e. “tab key navigation”).

The images below show the default (black on white) Yahoo Mail theme and the new dark high-contrast theme.

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Yahoo User Nights: A Featured Case Study in New Textbook

By Mike Shebanek, Senior Director, Accessibility

Engaging users, actively observing, and then incorporating feedback into product design is central to Yahoo’s product development work. In addition to routinely performing small group or one-on-one user research that includes people with disabilities, a method of engaging users and gathering feedback unique to the Yahoo User Experience Research and Accessibility (UXRA) team is something we call User Nights.

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Image caption: Dozens of Yahoo engineers wearing themed T-shirts sitting side by side with volunteers, observing them using Yahoo mobile apps on their smartphones

User Nights pair a user-volunteer one-on-one with a Yahoo engineer who observes how they complete a set of familiar tasks. It’s unusual for companies to have user researchers at all (it’s a function that’s often outsourced to consultants) but for those that do, it’s not so unusual to conduct observational research and report findings to a product team. Yahoo does this routinely. But our User Nights are unique in that we also arrange for the engineers who are actively engaged in building a product to sit side-by-side for over an hour observing how people are using it—with no coaching. They’re able to experience first-hand what’s working, what’s not, and the creative and unexpected ways people are using their products. Feedback and lessons learned from these experiences find their way directly back into the next release.

As Yogi Berra once said, “You can observe a lot just by watching.”

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Image caption: The cover of the new 2nd edition of the textbook, “Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction.” It features a hand-drawn group of users sitting behind a computer including a user who is blind holding a cane.

If you are interesting in learning more about Yahoo User Nights, I’m delighted to let you know that they’re now featured as a case study in the newly published 2nd edition of the textbook Research Methods in HCI by Prof. Jonathan Lazar, Jinjuan Feng, and Harry Hochheiser published by Morgan Kaufmann. (Yahoo receives no financial compensation related to this book). The first edition was published in 2009 and is used in many universities around the world, including Harvard, Carnegie-Mellon, the University of Washington, the University of Toronto, HiOA (Norway), KTH (Sweden), Tel Aviv University (Israel) and others.

Teach Access Receives Chairman’s Award from the FCC

Mike Shebanek, Yahoo Senior Director of Accessibility

I’m very pleased to share that last night, Teach Access, an initiative to include accessibility and universal design principles in the curricula of computer scientists, designers and researchers in undergraduate, graduate and continuing education, was awarded an Honorable Mention Chairman’s Award for Advancement in Accessibility (Chairman’s AAA) by the Federal Communications Commission.  

The Chairman’s AAA is an FCC program recognizing products, services, standards and other innovative developments that improve the experience of people with disabilities in telecommunications and technology. Yahoo is a founding partner of Teach Access, which was awarded this honor for its ambitious mission of incorporating fundamental concepts about accessible design and development across undergraduate design, computer science, UX and related curricula.  

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Image: Teach Access logo

Teach Access was created by a coalition of tech companies, universities and advocates for people with disabilities. Its mission is to expand awareness and knowledge of accessible technology development in higher education through approaches such as faculty bootcamps, guest lectures, internships, challenge grants for research and curriculum development and industry partnerships. Teach Access also builds open source online learning tools that reflect and teach accessibility best practices.

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Image: Chairman’s award for advancement in accessibility certificate

Congrats to the entire Teach Access team! To learn more about Teach Access and all the wonderful things we’re doing, please visit our site.  

Building deeper relationships with users

HC Lai, User Experience Researcher,  Rushani Wirasinghe, User Experience Researcher

Digital advertising is the financial backbone of the Internet industry, enabling many companies to monetize the traffic to their digital products and provide customers with free access to this incredible content. At Yahoo, our user experience (UX) researchers not only work closely with the teams designing consumer products, but also with those managing our advertising platforms. We have identified best practices for conducting effective user research in the context of advertising products, because it’s important to recognize the unique nature of the participants.

Yahoo Gemini Advertiser Council

The B2B UX research team has shifted from one-time interactions to longer term relationships with users of advertising and publishing tools, and actively works to build these relationships. Partnering with the product marketing team, the B2B UX research team developed the Yahoo Gemini Advertiser Council, which engages Yahoo Gemini advertisers annually with the goal of enabling users to be part of the product development process. Yahoo Gemini customers participate in diverse activities such as research studies throughout a product lifecycle, quarterly communications, and biannual in-person meetings with our product team. These activities not only positively impact advertisers’ perception of Yahoo Gemini, but they facilitate deep collaboration between our users, product team, and sales team. Based on direct feedback, Yahoo Gemini Advertiser Council members feel more confident that Yahoo can meet their advertising needs.

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Flurry’s Corporate Sponsorship  

Another example of a user panel is Flurry’s corporate sponsorship of Hacker Dojo [1]. Hacker Dojo is a community of app developers and startups located in Silicon Valley. We originally reached out to Hacker Dojo to conduct a one-time usability study on their premises. When we learned that we could expand the relationship from a one-time engagement to a longer-term relationship in the form of a corporate sponsorship, we did not hesitate. The sponsorship has provided Flurry with a user panel that they use to collect user feedback with minimal effort. It has also been a good opportunity to promote Flurry within the local community.

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Building a user panel not only helps minimize the lead time to recruit third party users but it also allows researchers to follow a community of users and observe how their usage of a product evolves over time.

1.     HackerDojo. http://www.hackerdojo.com/  (accessed Jan 10, 2017)

Hangout, Watch Stuff together–On Android!

By Darren Burton, Yahoo Accessibility Specialist

Tumblr just launched the Android version of Cabana, Tumblr’s cool new video sharing app, and it is just as fun and addicting as the iOS version we launched last month. As Yahoo’s Senior Director of Accessibility Mike Shebanek mentioned in his blog about the iOS version, the concept of Cabana is simple but really powerful. You find a funny or interesting video, you invite your friends, and you all watch the video together on your phones, while you watch each other at the same time. I’ve had a blast using Cabana, and I love getting my brother to watch videos with me while I mock his naïve political biases ;-)

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Image: Cabana by Tumblr logo

Pausing to reflect on my poor choice for the setting of my testing, I realized that as a blind guy, Cabana could be a virtual assistance tool, connecting me to friends or family in case I need to “borrow eyes” to find or identify something. I’ve been thinking of many ways this could be useful in my daily life. It is not what we designed the app to do; it is just another reason to love Cabana. And by the way, although she initially expressed her annoyance at the interruption, my wife was still watching videos and chatting with me nearly an hour later!

Even if  you or a friend have a disability, we want you to enjoy Cabana and invite your friends to watch videos together too. As with the iOS version, the Android version of Cabana has also been optimized in several ways to make it accessible:

  • Cabana incorporates live video conferencing so you can use sign language
  • The color scheme has been tweaked to make it higher contrast for improved readability
  • You can control Cabana using a physical keyboard or alternate input device in addition to gestures
  • The app has been optimized for TalkBack users so if you’re a screen reader user, you can invite your friends, answer an invitation, and choose and control the video. Even the welcome and setup screens, including the camera feature used to capture your avatar photo, have been optimized.

Virtual Assistant

I discovered another powerful way to use Cabana. While my wife Paula was reading a book in bed, I set up my iPhone on her nightstand with Cabana showing a Saturday Night Live video clip. My Android phone was connected to the same video, and I took it into my kitchen and began chatting with Paula. After grumbling her annoyance at the interruption, she graciously informed me that she could see a nice pile of dishes that could use my attention.

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Image: Cabana Image.  Text reads Watch Videos Together

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Image: Cabana image.  Text reads Hang out, watch stuff.

Cabana is free, and available today on the Play Store for your Android phone. Check it out and invite your friends.

Teach Access Wins Knowbility Award for Educational Achievement

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Mike Shebanek, Yahoo Senior Director of Accessibility

I’m very excited to share that Teach Access, an initiative to include accessibility and universal design principles in the curricula of computer scientists, designers and researchers in undergraduate, graduate and continuing education, has won the Knowbility, Inc. award for Educational Achievement! Yahoo is a founding member of the project.

Teach Access was created by a coalition of tech companies, universities and advocates for people with disabilities. Its mission is to expand awareness and knowledge of accessible technology development in higher education through approaches such as faculty bootcamps, guest lectures, internships, challenge grants for research and curriculum development and industry partnerships. Teach Access also builds open source online learning tools that reflect and teach accessibility best practices. The tools are widely available to individuals, companies and organizations. In addition, Teach Access has developed job descriptions that include preference for accessibility knowledge to support recruitment activities and to extend the post-secondary foundation through “on the job training” in product and service development.

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Image: Knowbility Award.  Inscription reads Knowbility is pleased to recognize Teach Access for Educational Achievement for creating and promoting an initiative to include accessibility and universal design principles in college and university curricula. 2017 Community Heroes of Accessibility Awards.

This is an extremely proud moment for Teach Access and its members and supporters as we continue our pursuit to bring accessible design and development skills into college classrooms.  

Yahoo UXRA at CHI 2017

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Frank Bentley / Sr. Principal Researcher

The Yahoo UX Research and Accessibility (UXRA) team is heading to the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (otherwise known as CHI 2017) in Denver!  

This year we have a series of great talks from our researchers and interns about the research we have conducted across consumer and advertising products. If you’ll be at CHI, you can find the room numbers for talks listed below.  We’re also hiring, so stop by our booth at the breaks. If you can’t make it to Denver, links to download our papers are available below.

CHI is an example of how research in industry builds off of the best academic research available and contributes back to the research community with our own findings and systems that we create. Each of our papers below cites dozens of studies from other corporate labs or universities, and we hope contributes to future scholarship in these venues.  We are an applied research group, and the findings from this research have a direct impact on our products and research culture within the company, as well as helps to put our users first in creating new product experiences at Yahoo for our billion+ users.

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“If a person is emailing you, it just doesn’t make sense”: Exploring Changing Consumer Behaviors in Email

Monday, 11:30 - 12:50 Room 203

Authors: 

Frank R Bentley, Yahoo, Sunnyvale, United States

Nediyana Daskalova, Yahoo, Sunnyvale, United States

Nazanin Andalibi, Yahoo, Sunnyvale, United States

Comparing the Reliability of Amazon Mechanical Turk and Survey Monkey to Traditional Market Research Surveys

Wednesday, 16:30 - 17:50 Room 302

Authors:

Frank R Bentley, Yahoo, Sunnyvale, United States

Nediyana Daskalova, Yahoo, Sunnyvale, United States

Brooke White, Yahoo, Sunnyvale, United States

Applied Research for Advertising Products: Tactics for Effective Research

Thursday, 11:30 - 12:50 Room 302

Authors:

Hsiao Chun Lai, Yahoo, Sunnyvale, United States

Rushani Wirasinghe, Yahoo, Sunnyvale, United States

It’s All About Coupons: Exploring Coupon Use Behaviors in Email

Thursday, 11:30 - 12:50 Room 302

Authors:

Nediyana Daskalova, Yahoo, Sunnyvale, United States

Frank R Bentley, Yahoo, Sunnyvale, United States

Nazanin Andalibi, Yahoo, Sunnyvale, United States


Talks by Other Yahoo Employees

Increasing Activity in Enterprise Online Communities Using Content Recommendation

Tuesday, 11:30 - 12:50 Room 110/112

Authors: 

Ido Guy, Yahoo Research, Haifa, Israel

Inbal Ronen, IBM Research, Haifa, Israel

Elad Kravi, Technion, Haifa, Israel

Maya Barnea, IBM Research, Haifa, Israel

Multimodal Classification of Moderated Online Pro-Eating Disorder Content

Tuesday, 16:30 - 17:50 Room 110/112

Authors:

Stevie Chancellor, School of Interactive Computing Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States

Yannis Kalantidis, Yahoo! Inc, San Francisco, United States

Jessica Annette Pater, School of Interactive Computing Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States

Munmun De Choudhury, School of Interactive Computing Georgia Tech, Atlanta, United States

David A. Shamma, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Chair, Session: 360 Video

Wednesday, 14:30 - 15:50 Room 205

Frank R Bentley (Yahoo Sr. Principal User Researcher)

Seeing It For Yourself

By Mike Shebanek, Senior Director, Accessibility

Yahoo’s Accessibility Lab is well known for creating hands-on interactions for software developers to experience how people with disabilities successfully use technology—when it’s well designed of course!  One of the experiences makes use of goggles with filtered lenses that simulate different types of vision loss, such as glaucoma and cataracts. Unfortunately, the lab is limited in the number of goggles we have available, and visitors to the lab can’t take the goggles home with them or back to their offices to experience vision loss in their own environments or to share this alternate reality with their colleagues. Thanks to Theia Immersive in the UK, that is about to change.

Theia has just introduced a new technology called Eyeware which is designed to enable architects, environmental engineers and space planners to explore how their designs and spaces might limit or enable people with disabilities. But by putting Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality to work, Eyeware can also create a real-time, immersive simulation that opens the door to simulating the many different and unique experiences of how people with low vision, color blindness and a variety of other eye conditions, see and navigate the world around them.

Using Virtual Reality, Theia Immersive can model a real environment, indoors or out and can simulate what it would be like to navigate with vision loss, or limited mobility. But even more impressively, they can make adjustments to the virtual environment in real time, to better understand how changes in lighting, signage, the use of color, and many other elements impact a user’s experience in that space. The system uses OmniDeck technology that drives the VR experience and enables a person to really (physically) walk through the virtual world, hear positional audio, and interact with their virtual environment. All of this can be captured, analyzed, and shared, also in real time, to an audience via TV monitors and computer screens.

The company has also created a personal, mobile version of their technology—Eyeware for iOS and Eyeware for Android. This version uses Augmented Reality - the app runs on  your phone when mounted in the Google Cardboard viewer (about $10). Theia Immersive offers their own Cardboard viewer that has a cutout to uncover your phone’s built-in rear camera (you can cut a hole in your own Cardboard viewer to achieve the same purpose). You can choose various visual effects  to simulate different types of vision loss. As you look through the Cardboard googles, you’re seeing the real world around you, but through the eyes of someone that has vision loss.

Video of the Augmented Reality Eyeware app using a Cardboard Viewer

We are very excited about this new technology and its far-reaching potential and are working with Theia to bring Eyeware into the Yahoo Accessibility Lab. We think it can have a profound impact on our visitors and will be encouraging our product teams to “see it for themselves” and consider how they can better design their products to provide access to people with vision loss and other disabilities.

In the meantime, Theia is coming to San Francisco on May 18th in celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, to an event hosted by the LightHouse for the Blind called “Eyeware – a New Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Experience for Inclusive Design.” They’ll be demonstrating both the virtual reality and augmented reality versions of Eyeware. Yahoo is proud to be a sponsor of this event and invites you to attend.

Hang Out. Watch Stuff—Together.

By Mike Shebanek

Senior Director of Accessibility

This week, Tumblr released a cool new iOS app called Cabana. The idea behind it is simple but really powerful. When you find a funny or interesting video you can’t wait to share with your friends, fire up Cabana, tap their names and invite them to join you. You’ll all see each other, and the video, together live. Share a good cry, make jokes, shout at the video, or just make crazy faces. It’s up to you what you say or do. The only caveat is to be careful—it’s totally addicting!

If you or a friend have a disability, you might be wondering if Cabana is something you can do too. Of course!  We want everyone to be part of this new experience and invite their friends so we’ve optimized Cabana in a bunch of ways to make it accessible:

  • Cabana incorporates live video conferencing so you can use sign language
  • The color scheme has been tweaked to make it higher contrast for improved readability
  • You can drive Cabana using a physical keyboard or alternate input device
  • The app has been optimized for VoiceOver users (iOS) so if you’re a screen reader user, you can invite your friends, answer an invitation, and choose and control the video. Even the welcome and setup screens, including the camera feature used to capture your avatar photo, have been optimized.
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Image: The Cabana app running on an iPhone showing six friends watching a video. The caption next to the phone reads “Watch videos together.”

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Image: The Cabana app running on an iPhone showing the Friends list. The heading on the Cabana app reads “Hang Out, watch stuff.”

Cabana is free, and available today on the App Store for your iPhone. Check it out and invite your friends. 

YEF Supports Parents Helping Parents

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By Lindsay Jonas, Sales Engineer

YEF would like to recognize Gary Moulton, who championed a grant of $40,000 for Parents Helping Parents, an organization that seeks to provide individuals with learning disabilities the knowledge and skills necessary to advocate for themselves, navigate college systems, access assistive technology (AT) and secure services needed to enhance success.

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Gary expressed excitement about the grant saying, “As a former clinician, I know that parents are the best advocates for an individual with a disability – especially for a young child. After working in the accessibility field for more than 30 years, I came to learn that the earlier an individual with a disability gets the assistive technology that he or she needs as an accommodation, the more likely he or she will be an independent and productive member of society. Parents Helping Parents helps people become better advocates and experts in assistive technology who can instantly appreciate the work of Yahoo’s Accessibility Team and our product groups who make Yahoo web properties and apps accessible.”

To find out more about Parents Helping Parents, visit their website. Thank you to Gary for contributing to such a great organization!

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Spring Storm At The Tunnel by WJMcIntosh on Flickr. “One of the reasons I made a mad dash up to Yosemite last April was to try to capture the wonderful side light on Bridal Veil that occurs in late Spring. I had seen a couple of amazing shots taken...High-res

Spring Storm At The Tunnel by WJMcIntosh on Flickr.

“One of the reasons I made a mad dash up to Yosemite last April was to try to capture the wonderful side light on Bridal Veil that occurs in late Spring. I had seen a couple of amazing shots taken by Michael Frye, including the shot that is on the cover of his book ‘The Photographer’s Guide To Yosemite’ and I found that the sun is only in this position during a limited few weeks each year. When I arrived, the place was wall to wall with photographers and all of us were holding our breath hoping that the sun would come out and that we might even see a rainbow. The rainbow never materialized, but there was an audible cheer when the sun finally came out which was almost drowned out by the sound of hundreds of DSLR cameras clicking madly until the sun disappeared once again.”

“If this looks familiar, it is a wider view of a shot I posted of Bridal Veil a few months ago. It’s a bit of a weird angle, but I like how the falls are dead center and how a finger of sunlight stretches across under El Capitan. This was my first trip to the park in late Spring, and I daresay, this won’t be my last.” - William McIntosh

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New Notification!

Oct 24th, 2018

The long awaited “Somebody commented on your answer” notification is here! No longer will you need to keep dozens of tabs open to check for replies on your answers. Instead, you will be notified when someone comments on an answer you have written.

Notification Controls If the notifications get overwhelming you can always switch them off by clicking the gear icon in the upper right corner of the feed.

-Yahoo Answers Team

© Copyright 2018. Oath, Inc. - All Rights Reserved.
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166/365 Sins: Your Sins Won't Go Unpunished (II)

166/365 Sins: Your Sins Won’t Go Unpunished (II) by Emily Moy
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Part two of the two part series of “Sins” and the last of the photos from Groton, MA. Facebook Page | tumblr | instagram

Light As a Feather

Light As a Feather, photo by Erin Graboski (shared in the Flickr Social Group)

Photographer Spotlight: Stephen Maycock

“I think EVERY photographer is always on the look out for repurposed props and strange items that they could use in their photos. I can’t stop myself from thinking of images when I walk past a mattress left on the side of the road…” - Excerpt from Flickr’s interview with Photographer Stephen Maycock.

Read more about Stephen’s techniques, his favorite Flickr follows, and how he paid for his equipment - you’ll never guess - at our new Flickr Blog.

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Come for what you love.
Stay for what you discover.

Okay, it’s not actually hard to explain.

We lied. But now you understand this thing. So come on in.

Tumblr is so easy to use that it’s hard to explain.

We made it really, really simple for people to make a blog and put whatever they want on it. Stories, photos, GIFs, TV shows, links, quips, dumb jokes, smart jokes, Spotify tracks, mp3s, videos, fashion, art, deep stuff. Tumblr is 463 million different blogs, filled with literally whatever.

Tumblr is blogs.

Turns out that when you make it easy to create interesting things, that’s exactly what people do. All those great, random blogs your friends send you, those are Tumblr blogs. We’ll help you find and follow blogs like that, and we’ll help other people find and follow yours.

You already know how this works.

Once you follow a blog, all of its posts show up in your dashboard, just like you’d expect. See something great? Reblog it to your own blog. Add commentary if you like. Make it your own. Other people will do the same to your posts. That’s how you meet people here.

Seriously, put anything you want here.

Seven post types to get you started. Your brain can do the rest. This thing is yours. Use it however you like.

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Never Stop Dreaming

Never Stop Dreaming by Alyssa Mort
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I’ve heard that if you spend hours and hours working on something with out noticing the hours slip by you should pursue that thing. Although there were some definite moments of frustration that made me wanna give up, the hours it took to make went by like nothing 😃 

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Flickr Friday: Empty Spaces - The Selection

These are some of our favorite photos of the theme #EmptySpaces from the Flickr Friday group last week. We found many creative interpretations of the concept of “emptiness” in the pool and we loved seeing every single one of them. Visit the most recent Flickr gallery to see the complete selection. 

The theme for this week is #GoodFortune. We encourage you to join the group on Flickr and participate!

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Indigenous People’s Day, a gallery on Flickr. Indigenous groups around the world, many of whom are becoming less and less prominent by the day, are rich with culture and traditions. We created this gallery to share a small glimpse into some portraits...
Indigenous People’s Day, a gallery on Flickr.

Indigenous groups around the world, many of whom are becoming less and less prominent by the day, are rich with culture and traditions. We created this gallery to share a small glimpse into some portraits of these often overlooked communities in North America and across the globe.

This gallery is inspired by Indigenous People’s Day (Oct. 13) on Yahoo News.

Please share some of your favorite portraits of diverse cultures and people from around the world in this gallery.

Photos by mlangsam2004.

Enjoy brilliant portraits by 20u20 photographer Greg Ponthus on our blog. Greg Ponthus grew up in the countryside of Lyon, where he lived in golden light and grassy hills. He stole his first camera from his dad when he was 15 or so and immediately...High-res

Enjoy brilliant portraits by 20u20 photographer Greg Ponthus on our blog.

Greg Ponthus grew up in the countryside of Lyon, where he lived in golden light and grassy hills. He stole his first camera from his dad when he was 15 or so and immediately started shooting people he lived with. And two years ago, he moved from France to attend an art school in Brussels.

We’re so happy to have selected Greg as one of our 20under20 finalists, a group of exceptional young photographers from our inspiring community.

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Come for what you love.
Stay for what you discover.

Okay, it’s not actually hard to explain.

We lied. But now you understand this thing. So come on in.

Tumblr is so easy to use that it’s hard to explain.

We made it really, really simple for people to make a blog and put whatever they want on it. Stories, photos, GIFs, TV shows, links, quips, dumb jokes, smart jokes, Spotify tracks, mp3s, videos, fashion, art, deep stuff. Tumblr is 463 million different blogs, filled with literally whatever.

Tumblr is blogs.

Turns out that when you make it easy to create interesting things, that’s exactly what people do. All those great, random blogs your friends send you, those are Tumblr blogs. We’ll help you find and follow blogs like that, and we’ll help other people find and follow yours.

You already know how this works.

Once you follow a blog, all of its posts show up in your dashboard, just like you’d expect. See something great? Reblog it to your own blog. Add commentary if you like. Make it your own. Other people will do the same to your posts. That’s how you meet people here.

Seriously, put anything you want here.

Seven post types to get you started. Your brain can do the rest. This thing is yours. Use it however you like.

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Reeds and Islands

Self-taught nature photographer David Frutos dwells in Murcia, Southeast Spain, and captures the incredible essence of the Mediterranean coast like a mystical dream.

David lives less than 75 kilometers from one of the best places he’s ever been—the Camarillas Swamp in Albacete, Spain. Many of the photos for which he won prestigious international awards have come from this particular location that he has managed to turn into a beautiful, magical spot.

Follow this link to learn more.

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Yahoo Messenger

Beyond Yahoo Messenger

By Michael Albers, VP of Communication Products at Oath

A while back we announced that we had completely modernized the technology that powered Yahoo Messenger. We made significant upgrades to key areas like photo sharing, made the service faster and more secure.

With the new platform, we were also able to build new types of messaging products and integrations. For example, our recently announced group messaging product, Yahoo Squirrel, aimed at improving the productivity of messaging, is based on this platform. Note: Yahoo Squirrel is invite-only still, but we will be opening it up to everyone shortly.

While there are many big messaging services today, just as in many things, the next phase of disruption in messaging is right around the corner. That is where we as engineers, product managers and designers have shifted our focus.

So as we continue to build and innovate products on our new messaging platform, we are announcing today that we will retire Yahoo Messenger, effective July 17, 2018.

Yahoo Messenger has had an amazing run. Over its twenty years, Yahoo Messenger introduced hundreds of millions of people to the joys of just the right emoticon for the moment (aka emojis). Yahoo Messenger changed the lives of millions, and thousands of people have sent us letters and photos over the years to share their stories of meeting a spouse over the service, keeping in touch with kids while serving overseas in the military, or introducing grandparents to new members of the family from across the globe.

We are thankful to the hundreds of millions who have used Messenger over the years as well as the thousands who have worked on it inside Yahoo for more than two decades.

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Yahoo Messenger Adds Touch ID, @Mentions and Link Previews

By Austin Shoemaker, Senior Director, Product Management

Today we’re announcing three new features designed to give you an even better Yahoo Messenger experience. This comes on the heels of our new read receipt and typing indicator features, which make it easy to see who’s caught up on the conversation.

Touch ID

Want to keep your Yahoo Messenger conversations a bit more secure? We’ve added the ability in your app settings to set up Touch ID in your mobile app so you’re the only one who will be able to access the app. Any time you want to open Yahoo Messenger, just unlock with your fingerprint and chat away.

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@Mentions

We know it can be difficult to get the attention of one person in a noisy group chat with multiple side conversations. With this new feature, the person you’re trying to reach will receive a special notification when you @mention them. Now, they’ll never accidentally miss your message again, even if they’ve muted the conversation. This feature is available on Android and iOS, and is coming to desktop and web soon!

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Link Previews

When you share a link in Yahoo Messenger, we’ll now conveniently display a preview so everyone in the conversation gets a snapshot of the content without having to open the link. We’re also making it easier for you to paste recently copied links into your Yahoo Messenger conversations. Once you copy a link from another app or website, we’ll prompt you to add it to a conversation with one tap as soon as you open the app.

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The Yahoo Messenger team is always looking to create new features to enhance your messaging experience, and we look forward to hearing what you think about today’s update. Update or download the Yahoo Messenger app for iOS and Android today to enjoy these new features!

Message Received: Introducing Read Receipts, Typing Indicators and More for Yahoo Messenger

By Austin Shoemaker, Senior Director, Product Management

Sometimes it can get a little frustrating when you’re messaging friends or colleagues and you’re not sure who’s checking their phone or reading your messages. Today, we’re bringing you several updates to Yahoo Messenger that make messaging an even better experience, plus a new way to express yourself with emojis.

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Read Receipts

We’ve all been there – we’ve sent a message to a friend or family member, only to be left wondering if they ever opened it or bothered to read it. With our latest update, Yahoo Messenger will show you read receipts for group and one-on-one chats, across mobile, desktop and web, so you’re never left guessing if it reached your recipient’s eyes again.

Typing Indicators

With our typing indicator (…), you’ll now be able to see when the person you’re chatting with starts typing.

Big Emojis

When you’re trying to get an important message across, sometimes a regular emoji just isn’t enough. Now your hearts, champagne bottles, and clapping hands will show up bigger than ever in your chat window on mobile for that extra oomph.

You’ll start seeing these features in every conversation starting today! Make sure you update Yahoo Messenger in the App Store and on Google Play, as well as web and desktop. Update or refresh Yahoo Messenger to see these updates come to life.

Yahoo Messenger Adds Video to Make Sharing Even Easier

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By Mimmie Huang, Product Manager

Whether you want to show your friends the beautiful scenery while you’re on vacation or send baby videos to grandma and grandpa, Yahoo Messenger has you covered! Launching today, video in Messenger makes it even easier to show rather than tell when you want to share experiences with the people you care about. Now available on both the iOS and Android app globally, you can send videos in one-on-one and group conversations!

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Wondering how it’s done? It’s just like sending photos. When composing a message, tap on the gallery picker to choose a video from your device’s gallery. Note that you’ll need to trim videos to a minute or less before sharing them in Messenger.

Update your app or download the Yahoo Messenger app for iOS and Android today to enjoy this new feature!

Yahoo Messenger Brings New Chat Features to Yahoo Fantasy Sports

By Jeff Bargmann, Product Manager

Following the launch of the new Yahoo Messenger, we are excited to bring this modern messaging platform and its beloved features into the redesigned Yahoo Fantasy app. Yahoo Fantasy Messenger gives you a fast, easy, and fun way to stay connected to your league-mates.

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Now you can start conversations with your entire league or chat 1-1 with other team managers. Share photos and GIFs to spice up your conversations, and ‘like’ your friends’ responses to let them know you agree with their smack talk. Celebrated your team’s win too soon? With Yahoo Fantasy Messenger you can even unsend a message to save yourself any embarrassment.  

Whether you’re trash talking, offering advice, or sending congratulations, we hope you enjoy staying connected to your Fantasy League! Update your app today, or restart if you’ve already upgraded, to start using the new Fantasy Messenger. This feature will be rolling out throughout the day, so make sure to check back. And if you’re not already playing, join or create a league today on iOS or Android.

It’s Here! Introducing the New and Improved Yahoo Messenger Desktop App

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By Austin Shoemaker, Senior Director, Product Management

Since we launched the new Yahoo Messenger at the end of last year, you’ve enjoyed an energized messaging experience built around groups. Our new platform provides you with a fast and easy way to send (and unsend) not only messages, but also photos and animated GIFs. Today, we’re delighted to announce that you can enjoy all of these features you’ve grown to know and love in our brand-new Yahoo Messenger desktop app for Windows and Mac.

Want to share photos from your latest vacation or simply spice up a message? Save precious time with our drag and drop feature to share multiple photos at once. Then, spread the love by “liking” any posts or images that stand out to you. If you’d rather reply with a GIF, you can easily search and send GIFs to your heart’s content. Pro tip: play GIF roulette and type /gif + any search term.

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With Messenger’s desktop notifications, you can multitask at your computer without having to worry about missing an important message from family, friends, or coworkers again.

We are also introducing the unsend button – one of our most beloved Messenger features now on desktop. Sent that message too soon or caught a last-minute typo? Now you can take back a message, photo or GIF (yes, even after you’ve pressed send)! You can find out more about this exciting feature here.

The Yahoo Messenger desktop app is available for download today on Windows and Mac! Friendly reminder: If you’re using the old version of the Yahoo Messenger desktop app, don’t forget to update it by August 5 as the legacy Yahoo Messenger app will no longer function as we move forward! And if you have any questions while you’re transitioning to our new platform, simply head over to our help page. 

Bonjour, Hallo, 您好: A Few Updates to Yahoo Messenger

By Austin Shoemaker, Senior Director, Product Management

Since we launched the new Yahoo Messenger back in December, people have been using it to send – and unsend! – any photo, message or animated GIF quickly and easily.

Here by popular demand, Messenger syncs and matches your mobile contacts instantly, so you can find and chat with your friends even faster. Make sure you have enabled access to contacts in the Messenger app for the best experience!

And, for the first time, Messenger now supports non-English languages, including Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Spanish, and more. Update your iPhone or Android app in the App Store or Play Store today, and keep an eye out for more coming soon!

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“Hello… It’s me. I was wondering if after all these years you’d like to meet.” Reintroducing Yahoo Messenger

By Jeff Bonforte, SVP of Product & Engineering for Communication Products

We’re unveiling the next generation of the venerable Yahoo Messenger, which offers a vibrant new messaging experience, built from the ground up. The powerful new platform integrates the best of the Flickr, Tumblr and Xobni platforms – built to serve you, for years to come.

The new Yahoo Messenger was created with group messaging in mind from the start. We’ve made sharing, “unsending” and “liking” messages, photos and animated GIFs easy and insanely fast – unlike anything you’ve experienced before.

The new Yahoo Messenger is available globally today on iOS, Android, on the Web and in Yahoo Mail on the desktop. It has a few superpowers that we think you’ll love once you try them. Let’s jump into the details.

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Photos, Photos, Photos

Drawing from Flickr’s expertise, the new Yahoo Messenger really takes the beauty of sharing photos to a whole new level. You can literally send hundreds of photos at a time and they appear to everyone in the conversation almost instantly.

Not only is the quality of the photos amazing when viewing on Yahoo Messenger, but you can download the original in full quality. And you don’t need to worry about limited photo storage, because the app loads images just as (actually, just before) you need them. It’s like magic.

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Love It or Unsend It

Today’s messaging services are either ephemeral or permanent. The new Yahoo Messenger is both. You can “unsend” any message, photo or GIF, and it will vanish instantly from the conversation (not only from your view but everyone else’s too). Poof!

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Of course, at the other side of the spectrum is love. Show some love with a “like” on any comment, photo or GIF. Unsend and “like” are not only good for 1:1 conversations, but they are also invaluable for groups. For example, at Yahoo, when we’re deciding where to meet for lunch, people throw out options on Yahoo Messenger and the group votes on their favorite using “like.”

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GIFs Are The New Emoji

Before emojis there was that awkward moment in messaging where you were unsure what the other person really meant. Then came emojis, which helped you to express yourself. But why limit your reaction to an emoji? Everyone loves a GIF!

Now you can search and find the perfect GIF in the new Yahoo Messenger app. Get instant access to a virtually unlimited and ever-growing library of GIFs pulled from the Tumblr community, where tomorrow’s most popular GIFs are born each day.

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Smart Contacts

Like Yahoo Mail, the new Yahoo Messenger has a brilliant smart contacts system behind the scene, powered by Xobni’s industry-defining platform. This is critical, because even more than email, messaging is all about the “who” in your life.

For example, our smart contacts system doesn’t just understand who you know, it also understands the relationship between your contacts, so adding people to the group is really fast and simple. Also, anyone in a group can add another participant, change the name of the group or even change the group photo.

Really Fast…Seriously

Speed with communications is critical and the new Yahoo Messenger sets the bar in speed. In an area like photo sharing, it is almost inconceivably fast. Syncing conversations between Yahoo Messenger on the Web, in Yahoo Mail and your smartphone happens almost in real-time.

And if you’re offline or have low connectivity (say when you’re flying or in a remote area), you can continue to use the app and send messages or photos. When you’re connected, Yahoo Messenger automatically sends them through without you having to resend or refresh.

And More To Come

Today’s launch is just the beginning. We’re going to continue to work hard to build the best messaging product that you won’t be able to live without!

Give it a try and let us know what you think. Still using our old Yahoo Messenger? Read more here.

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Jenny's Legacy

It’s adventure time! TGIF.

Jenny’s Legacy by Craig B
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Taken at the Chevin, above Otley, West Yorkshire. Ahem… The Chevin is largely covered in attractive old woodland and heathland. It is a part of the Carboniferous Millstone Grit group. 

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Introducing Yahoo’s Neurodiversity Employee Resource Group
May 10, 2017
Yahoo Finance Delivers Nearly 7M Total Live Views for Berkshire Hathaway Live Stream
May 11, 2017
Full of Pride
June 1, 2017

Yahoo News Video Series ‘Cities Rising: Rebuilding America’ Returns Summer 2017

By Tony Maciulis, Head of News, Yahoo Studios

We’re excited to announce that Cities Rising: Rebuilding America, a Yahoo News docuseries, is returning this summer with all new episodes. Join Yahoo for an up-close and personal look at three iconic U.S. cities, as told over two episodes each.

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In the first episode, launching today, Katie Couric visits Cleveland, a city residents like to call “the best location in the nation.” During her tour she visits the Cleveland Clinic, where she checks out a new breakthrough technology, the HoloLens, that is transforming the study of the human anatomy. Couric also visits the Cleveland Browns stadium with WKYC’s sports director, Jim Donovan, who discusses the Cavaliers’ historic 2016 NBA championship. She samples local treats at West Side Market, the oldest operating indoor-outdoor market space in the city, and catches up with Matthew McConaughey, who filmed his new movie in Cleveland and has plans to launch his Just Keep Livin Foundation curriculum there at John Adams High School.

New episodes of Cities Rising: Rebuilding America will publish twice a month on Yahoo. The visit to Cleveland is followed by stops in New York City’s largest and most diverse area, the borough of Queens, and finally the “Valley of the Sun,” Phoenix. The first episode of each installment explores how the city is making pivotal changes to reinvent itself, while taking a look at issues that are core to rebuilding: education, the economy and infrastructure. The second episode will focus on fun — the arts and culture, sports, food and nightlife scenes that make life exciting in the city.

Full episodes and additional clips are available at yahoo.com/cities-rising.

Full of Pride

By Chris Kolk, Chair of Yahoo Pride

June is recognized globally as a time of reflection and celebration for the LGBTQ community. Every year, Pride celebrations are held around the world to commemorate the Stonewall Riots in New York, the anniversary of the Supreme Court case of Obergefell v. Hodges, and individuals such as Harvey Milk and Audrey Lorde who helped pave the way for LGBTQ rights. This month, we encourage you to take a moment to remember those who took a stand for equality and join those who are still fighting for LGBTQ rights. The fight for equality is not something of the past, but the responsibility of those living in the present.

Here at Yahoo, we’re recognizing these individuals and milestones by celebrating all month long with our Yahoo Pride Employee Resource Group (ERG) and by leveraging the power of our products and network to drive inclusivity. Here’s just some what we have planned:

  • Yahoo Mail: Share your Pride with family and friends all month long by using our Pride-themed stationery
  • Yahoo Homepage: During Pride weekend, June 23 – 25, our Yahoo Homepage will commemorate this important time, highlighting our continued commitment to diversity
  • Yahoo Billboard: If you’re driving north into San Francisco, CA on Interstate 80, take a look at our iconic billboard, which will be painted rainbow in celebration with messages of encouragement
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Yahoo is committed to making our company a best place to work for the LGBTQ community and has been recognized for the past 10 years by the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, scoring a perfect 100 each time. With the help of our ERG, we strive to maintain a strong culture of diversity and equality by building a safe workplace. We continually educate our employees on LGBTQ rights to ensure our employees can always feel proud of who they are. Happy Pride Month to all of our users and our employees!

Yahoo Finance Delivers Nearly 7 Million Total Live Views for Second Annual Berkshire Hathaway Live Stream

By Andy Serwer, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo Finance

On Saturday, May 6, Yahoo Finance live-streamed the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting to an audience of millions around the globe.

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The second annual live stream reached a global audience of 1.43 million unique viewers on Yahoo, across all devices, up 30% from 2016. Engagement also increased significantly this year, with more than 3.1 million total live views on Yahoo, up over 72% from 2016. Audiences spent a total of 24.7 million minutes on Yahoo, up 38% from 2016, watching Berkshire Hathaway Chairman & CEO Warren Buffett, and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, share their insights and advice, live from the CenturyLink Center in Omaha.  

Additionally, through our live streaming partners in China, we saw another 3.89 million total live views for a combined 6.99 million total live views worldwide.

In addition to VOD replay on the site, Yahoo Finance has also made an audio replay of the meeting and accompanying interviews available via podcast for the first time ever, through a partnership with Acast. Find it on iTunes and other podcast stores now.

Be sure to check out all of our coverage on Yahoo Finance.

Introducing  Yahoo’s Neurodiversity Employee Resource Group

By Margenett Moore-Roberts, Global Head of Inclusive Diversity 

I am excited to announce the creation of Yahoo’s newest Employee Resource Group (ERG) focused on Neurodiversity, spearheaded by Margaux Joffe, Yahoo’s Head of Production, Global Marketing Department. The ERG’s mission is to champion neurodiversity at Yahoo in order to create an inclusive workplace for minds of all kinds.

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If you’re unfamiliar, neurodiversity refers to differences in learning and attention as normal variations of the human brain. At Yahoo, we recognize minds of all kinds and respect all forms of human variations – from dyslexia, to ADHD, to the autistic spectrum and more. In partnership with Yahoo’s Office of Inclusive Diversity (OID), the new Neurodiversity ERG will help encourage that anyone with these differences can utilize their strengths at work and thrive through one another’s support, as well as supports OID’s mission of advancing diversity and inclusion in Yahoo’s workforce, workplace and marketplace.

Margaux is the chair of the program and her passion stems from her personal experience in being diagnosed with ADHD three years ago, when she was well into adulthood. She felt compelled to found the Kaleidoscope Society, an empowerment project for women with ADHD which shines a light on inspiring stories of trailblazing women with ADHD for its more than 700 members. After joining Yahoo and talking to the OID about their commitment to creating an inclusive working environment, she proposed the idea of creating a Neurodiversity ERG in order to extend the OID’s efforts to colleagues (like herself) with neurological differences.

The ERG is hitting the ground running, and the first internal campaign is introducing poster series and screens in all offices globally to highlight the strengths associated with a few neurological differences such as Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia and OCD. The ERG will also meet regularly to provide support to relevant members of the Yahoo community and collaborate on how to grow and bring awareness to their mission. Four initial focuses of the program include: learning the needs of employees, creating a community of support, providing resources at Yahoo and increasing the cultural competency of managers so they can effectively manage their diverse teams.

In the coming months, the ERG will work with the OID and Human Resources to ensure Neurodiversity is incorporated into our Inclusion strategy and our manager competencies.

Yahoo Finance Hosts Live Stream of Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting

By Andy Serwer, Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief

Tune in as Yahoo hosts our second live stream of Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting on Saturday, May 6. Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer will be on-the-ground at CenturyLink Center Omaha, alongside Yahoo News & Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga and Yahoo Finance Anchor Jennifer Rogers, with insight, analysis and news-making interviews. For the second year in a row, audiences will be able to watch live on Yahoo Finance – across desktop, tablet and mobile – as Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett and his right-hand man Charlie Munger share their unscripted views on the company, the markets, the administration and whatever other topic that may come up. The shareholders meeting live stream on Yahoo Finance will once again be available in both English and Mandarin, with VOD replay available for 30 days following the meeting.

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The schedule of live coverage includes:

  • 10:00am ET – Yahoo Finance pre-show
  • 10:15am ET – Live stream of morning session, featuring the Q&A with Buffett and Munger
  • 1:00pm ET – Yahoo Finance Halftime Report
  • 2:00pm ET – Live stream of afternoon session, featuring additional Q&A and business meeting
  • 4:30pm ET – Yahoo Finance post-show wrap-up

Throughout the Pre-show and Halftime Report we’ll also feature a number of live and pre-taped interviews with the Yahoo Finance editorial team, including: Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway; Todd Combs, Investment Manager for Berkshire Hathaway, and Ted Weschler, Portfolio Manager for Berkshire Hathaway; Coca Cola Chairman Muhtar Kent and newly appointed CEO, James Quincey; actress and Buffett friend, Glenn Close; Dairy Queen CEO John Gainor; former Vanguard CEO Jack Bogle; Brooks Running CEO Jim Weber; Chair, CEO and Chief Designer of Kathy Ireland Worldwide, Kathy Ireland, and many others. 

This year, Yahoo Finance will also make an audio replay of the meeting and accompanying interviews available via podcast, through a partnership with Acast. With more than 50 million monthly listens to more than 1,000 shows globally, Acast is the world’s leading technology infrastructure for audio on demand and podcasts.

The Yahoo Finance’s Berkshire Hathaway podcast will be available on iTunes and other podcast stores, starting Monday, May 8. For more information on the Berkshire Hathaway Live Stream, visit the landing page on Yahoo Finance and be sure to follow the conversation on Twitter with @YahooFinance #BRKLiveStream.

Amica Insurance Teams Up with Yahoo for New Campaign to Help Consumers Prepare for Life’s Biggest Moments

We’re excited to partner with Amica Insurance for its new campaign to help consumers, especially millennials, prepare for their biggest milestones in life. 

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Working with Yahoo Storytellers, Amica is introducing Things They Don’t Tell You About, a new branded destination that offers valuable information and advice on topics from buying a car, to purchasing a home, to starting a family. Amica’s new campaign is geared towards millennials, many of whom are facing important decisions around these major milestones for the first time. Consumers can now access exclusive videos and editorial features on Things They Don’t Tell You About to help them better understand and navigate their insurance needs.

As part of this campaign, Amica will also align with Yahoo Finance’s popular live and short form video programming. Amica will connect with viewers through custom integrations, including three branded segments alongside episodes of “Midday Movers” and “Now I Get It” on Yahoo Finance. “Midday Movers” is a daily live show on Yahoo Finance that analyzes the top stories and stocks moving the market right now, discusses recent earnings reports and economic data and features can’t miss interviews with the top money managers and traders on Wall Street. “Now I Get It” is a popular video series on Yahoo Finance that explains the business concepts and jargon from the biggest financial stories of the day. With branded segments appearing at the end of each episode, Amica will share tips and perspectives for consumers on purchasing insurance. Amica will also run extensive video, native and display advertising across Yahoo properties to amplify the sponsorship and drive consumers to Things They Don’t Tell You About.

Launched in 2016, Yahoo Storytellers is a full service content marketing studio, producing premium video and editorial content for brands that is also backed by data. Yahoo Finance is the leading business news site, known for its unrivaled access to financial insights and news. In 2016, audiences spent nearly 13 million hours watching Yahoo Finance’s three daily live shows including Market Movers, Midday Movers and The Final Round. Additionally, time spent watching video across Yahoo’s properties has increased 85% year over year, creating exciting new opportunities for marketers.

Researching the Definition of Good Online Conversations and How They Should Rank with the Yahoo News Annotated Comments Corpus

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By Courtney Napoles, Aasish Pappu, Joel Tetreault

Comment threads following online news articles often range from vacuous to hateful. That said, good conversations do occur online, with people expressing different viewpoints and attempting to inform, convince, or better understand the other side, even if they can get lost among the multitude of unconstructive comments. At Yahoo Research, we show in recent statistical experiments that automatically identifying and ranking good conversations on top will cultivate a more civil and constructive atmosphere in online communities and potentially encourage participation from more users [1].

In an effort to foster more respectful online discussions and encourage more research among academics surrounding comments, we present the Yahoo News Annotated Comments Corpus (YNACC) via our data sharing program, Webscope. The corpus contains 522K comments from 140K comment threads posted in response to online news articles, and contains manual annotations for a subset of 2.4K comment threads and 9.2K comments. The annotations include 6 attributes of individual comments: sentiment, tone, agreement with other commenters, topic of the comment, intended audience, and persuasiveness. The annotations also include 3 attributes of threads: constructiveness, agreeability within the conversation, and type of conversation, i.e., flamewars vs positive/respectful [2].

Annotated conversations in the YNACC corpus were used to create a predictive algorithm and train statistical models to automatically detect “good” conversations. We call these good conversations ERICs: Engaging, Respectful, and/or Informative Conversations, and they are characterized by:

  • A respectful exchange of ideas, opinions, and/or information in response to a given topic or topics.
  • Opinions expressed as an attempt to elicit a dialogue or persuade.
  • Comments that seek to contribute some new information or perspective on the relevant topic.

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ERICs have no single identifying attribute. A good conversation is determined by how many respectful, engaging, and persuading comments are present. For instance, an exchange where communicants are in total agreement throughout can be an ERIC, as can an exchange with a heated disagreement. Our algorithm ranks either of these types of exchanges higher than those that lack ERICs. Many of the labels for the ERICs in our dataset are the result of a new coding scheme (annotation taxonomy) we developed and are for characteristics of online conversations not captured by traditional argumentation or dialogue features. Some of the labels we collected have been annotated in previous work [3,4], and this is the first time they are aggregated in a single corpus at the dialogue level.

Additionally, we collected annotations on 1K threads from the Internet Argument Corpus, representing another domain of online debates. Our corpus and annotation scheme is the first exploration of how characteristics of individual comments contribute to the dialogue-level classification of an exchange. We hope YNACC will facilitate research to understand ERICs and other aspects of dialogue in general.

The technical contributions of this dataset are described in two scientific papers:

[1] Courtney Napoles, Aasish Pappu, and Joel Tetreault. “Automatically Identifying Good Conversations Online (Yes, they do exist!)”. In Proceedings of ICWSM'17.

[2] Courtney Napoles, Joel Tetreault, Aasish Pappu, Enrica Rosato and Brian Provenzale. 2017. “Finding Good Conversations Online: The Yahoo News Annotated Comments Corpus”. In Proceedings of The 11th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XI).

References:

[3] Rob Abbott, Brian Ecker, Pranav Anand, and Marilyn Walker. Internet Argument Corpus 2.0: An SQL schema for dialogic social media and the corpora to go with it. LREC 2016.

[4] Marilyn Walker, Jean Fox Tree, Pranav Anand, Rob Abbott, and Joseph King. A corpus for research on deliberation and debate. LREC 2012.

Introducing Yahoo Sports Headlines on iOS and Android

By Matt Edelman, Product Manager

The mobile industry is shifting the way we consume video content. At Yahoo, with our more than 650 million mobile users (and growing), continuing to create new experiences on these devices remains a top priority. Today we’re proud to introduce Yahoo Sports Headlines, a new visual way to tap through the day’s tops stories.   

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Available in our popular Yahoo Sports app, Headlines are quick, high quality videos presented in an easy to view portrait format. Fans can catch up on the latest news by tapping through each video and simply swipe up to read the entire article. The videos are easy to comment on in the app and can be shared on social networks. The new Headlines tab on the Yahoo Sports app can be found on both iOS and Android.  

This is just the beginning for our new take on mobile video. Over the coming year, we plan to continue evolving the product and rolling it out across more Yahoo properties so stay tuned!

Access The Yahoo Mail App Now with Any Email Address

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By Josh Jacobson, Senior Director of Product Management

Staying on top of things on a daily basis isn’t easy. The Yahoo Mail app team is always looking to create new features that help people stay organized – from customizable swipes and people-only notifications, to our recently announced top search results. These features have helped make reading, organizing and sending emails easier than ever, and our users have thanked us by making Yahoo Mail one of the top-rated email apps for iOS and Android. Today, we’re giving more people the opportunity to experience the Yahoo Mail app, without having to switch to a brand new email address. Now, you can use the app with your Gmail, Outlook or AOL email address.

Read on to learn more about this update and some of the Yahoo Mail features you can start enjoying today. You’re on your way to a more organized life!

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So, how does it work? From the welcome screen, tap your email provider, use your Gmail, Outlook or AOL email address to create a Yahoo account, and give Yahoo permission to sync your email messages in the Mail app. Immediately start enjoying an organized inbox experience.

The Yahoo Mail app has a number of unique features, and below are just a few that you can start taking advantage of today:

  • Relevant search results: Spend less time searching for the emails you need. Now, when you search your email using a keyword, we’ll highlight the most relevant messages.
  • People-only notifications: Get notified only when you receive a new email from a person, not companies or newsletters.
  • Customizable swipes: Choose which action appears when you swipe left or right on a message, including delete, archive, move and more.
  • Contacts: Yahoo Mail displays comprehensive, editable contact cards, powered by Xobni, that detect all the email addresses and phone numbers associated with that person. We also pull photos from Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, so you’ll see great images from senders more often.
  • Personalized themes and stationery: Make your inbox more personalized with custom themes and your notes more modern with stationery from Paperless Post.
  • Ditch your password:  Never stress about remembering your password again. Enable Account Key for secure, password-free sign in.
  • Multiple mailbox management: If you already have a Yahoo email account, you can easily connect and manage email accounts from Gmail, Outlook.com, Hotmail and AOL.

The new Yahoo Mail app is available in the App Store (iOS 4.15) and Google Play (Android 5.15). Check it out and let us know what you think — just go to Settings and tap “Send Feedback.”

All Aboard, Captain is Now on Messenger!

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By Conrad Wai, VP, Product Management

We’re excited to bring Captain to Facebook Messenger as part of the first wave of bots on the newly announced Chat Extensions feature, enabling people to use Captain seamlessly with their friends and family right in Messenger.

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Captain on Messenger streamlines organization among groups, family, and friends for managing activities with a shared tasks list. Use Captain to figure out who’s bringing what on your next backpacking trip or plan for an upcoming potluck dinner – without leaving Messenger. With Captain, you can make plans with your favorite people without overloading them with tons of notifications and long, unorganized lists of requests and questions.

“We are delighted that Yahoo is launching Captain on Messenger,” said Stan Chudnovsky, Vice President of Product for Messenger. “This bot will help users simplify group coordination, which can get harder the larger the group and longer the thread. This experience makes that interaction seamless.”

To start using Captain on Messenger, just add the bot to your group conversation.

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We launched Captain last month for text messaging to help families stay organized. We continue to iterate on our products to help users make life easier and more fun. Give Captain a try today and share feedback directly from the bot!

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Hang out and watch stuff.

Get the iOS app

Hey! We made a new iPhone app. It’s called Cabana and it’s for hanging out with friends and watching videos.

Wait, a whole new app?

Yup, a whole new app.

Really?

Yeah! It’s good. You just open it, video chat with up to five friends, and watch stuff together.

Hey, neat. Anything else I should know?

Nah, it’s pretty simple. It looks like that👇 . We’ve got some ideas about where to go with it, but hey, all in good time. 

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Oh, p.s., the Android version should be out in a few weeks. Enjoy. 

Yahoo News Investigation | Weed & the American Family

By Martha Nelson, Global Editor in Chief

The topic of marijuana is at a tipping point. While some aspects of this tectonic shift in American society have been well covered – legalization, the business boom, the political divides – its impact on our most important relationships, those inside our homes, has been curiously underexamined.

Leveraging the power of the Yahoo network, Weed & the American Family is an in-depth and thoughtful examination of the way cannabis is affecting our families – from the generational split over usage, to shifting attitudes, to its impact on parenting and relationships.   

At the center of our project is an exclusive Yahoo News/Marist Poll which offers the most comprehensive examination of this hot topic – Weed & the American Family.

This survey of 1,122 adults in America found that marijuana use has become surprisingly acceptable, particularly in families where parents are users. Having used – or merely tried – marijuana makes you much less concerned about its effect on your family, suggesting that as weed becomes more widespread in the age of legalization, more Americans will begin to feel the same way.  

See the full poll results here: http://maristpoll.marist.edu/yahoo-newsmarist-poll/

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Our examination includes an interview with former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, who co-founded an anti-legalization group called Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM); a discussion with Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper about the lessons he’s learned as a reluctant leader on the front lines of the marijuana revolution; and an intimate conversation with musician, mother and weed advocate Melissa Etheridge. We also produced video diaries of families who share how marijuana has affected their lives, both negatively and positively, including a compelling account of a mother using marijuana to treat postpartum depression and anxiety.

We hope that as you read through our fascinating poll data, reporting and first-person accounts on marijuana use, you’ll be able to develop a better sense of the complex and evolving attitudes about  this deeply controversial issue in American life and that it generates discussion where it matters most –  within your own family.  

Our Boomerang Employees Share Why They Returned to the ‘Hoo

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By Carolyn Clark, Corporate Communications

We call them our boomerangs and we are incredibly proud of these former employees who have come back to work at the ‘Hoo. More than 10% of our workforce have “boomeranged” back to the company! We recently sat down with a few of them to find out why, and we were incredibly inspired by their responses.

Yahoo’s transparency, scale, inclusive environment, sense of play and transformative thinking were just a few of the key themes that came up from our Boomerangs. To hear more about why they returned to Yahoo in their own words, check out this video. 

Interested in a career at Yahoo? We’re hiring! Apply at careers.yahoo.com.

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Self-taught nature photographer David Frutos dwells in Murcia, Southeast Spain, and captures the incredible essence of the Mediterranean coast like a mystical dream.

David lives less than 75 kilometers from one of the best places he’s ever been—the Camarillas Swamp in Albacete, Spain. Many of the photos for which he won prestigious international awards have come from this particular location that he has managed to turn into a beautiful, magical spot.

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Come for what you love.
Stay for what you discover.

Okay, it’s not actually hard to explain.

We lied. But now you understand this thing. So come on in.

Tumblr is so easy to use that it’s hard to explain.

We made it really, really simple for people to make a blog and put whatever they want on it. Stories, photos, GIFs, TV shows, links, quips, dumb jokes, smart jokes, Spotify tracks, mp3s, videos, fashion, art, deep stuff. Tumblr is 463 million different blogs, filled with literally whatever.

Tumblr is blogs.

Turns out that when you make it easy to create interesting things, that’s exactly what people do. All those great, random blogs your friends send you, those are Tumblr blogs. We’ll help you find and follow blogs like that, and we’ll help other people find and follow yours.

You already know how this works.

Once you follow a blog, all of its posts show up in your dashboard, just like you’d expect. See something great? Reblog it to your own blog. Add commentary if you like. Make it your own. Other people will do the same to your posts. That’s how you meet people here.

Seriously, put anything you want here.

Seven post types to get you started. Your brain can do the rest. This thing is yours. Use it however you like.

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